declaim
verb
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noun
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Synonyms
descant, discourse, expatiate, harangue, lecture, orate, speak, talk
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At the opening ceremony of this year’s conference, the ballroom at the Hilton Cleveland Downtown was buzzing with fresh-faced capitalist devotees sipping wine and beer and declaiming their love of Rand’s work. — Alexander Sammon, The New Republic, "The Last of the Ayn Rand Acolytes," 14 Aug. 2019 Introduced while smugly declaiming his masturbatory fantasies to his high school English class, Sidney is barely bearable. — Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, "Review: A Young Writer Implodes in ‘The Vanishing of Sidney Hall’," 1 Mar. 2018 North America, Gilpin grandly declaimed, had a national, unified personality. — Johnforristerross, Longreads, "Taming the Great American Desert," 2 July 2018 One soprano declaims these words while another sings settings of poems by Rebecca Elson, who tells of a similar struggle, in more oblique terms. — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, "The Sonic Fury of the Ojai Music Festival," 24 June 2018 In this sense, all fiction — and this has been roughly true since the early nineteenth century, when the burgeoningly popular, still somewhat novel novel form, was declaimed as a woman’s art — is chick lit. — Constance Grady, Vox, "Jane Austen, authority on relationship intricacies, has been cited in 27 legal decisions," 28 Apr. 2018 These were then declaimed by a speech synthesizer, with the androidal American accent that has thereafter become his trademark. — Martin Rees, Newsweek, "A Brief History of My Friend Stephen Hawking, the Man Who Changed Our Times," 14 Mar. 2018 These narcissists declaim their insecurities and grievances in the language of personal essays. — Christian Lorentzen, New Republic, "Talk Therapy," 9 Feb. 2018 The pastors who speak at those have nearly half an hour each to declaim, and the speakers bring many of their own congregants to the host church with them. — Jonathan M. Pitts, baltimoresun.com, "Faithful take 'Rush Hour to Calvary' for Good Friday service," 30 Mar. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'declaim.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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