In a sentence
Six example sentences with invective, each labelled with its topic.
The debate collapsed into invective, with both candidates talking over the moderator for the last ten minutes.
Politics
Swift could fill four pages with invective and still make the reader laugh at the bishop he was skewering.
Literature
The reviewer's column was pure invective, calling the picture a waste of celluloid and everyone's evening.
Movies
The visiting coach absorbed twenty minutes of invective from the student section without once looking up from his clipboard.
Basketball
The judge struck the invective from the brief and reminded counsel that insulting the other side is not an argument.
Law
Chat filled with invective the moment the streamer lost, and the moderators muted forty accounts in two minutes.
Gaming
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