October 12, 2012
diatribe • noun
It's totally overwhelming when you ask someone a seemingly innocuous question, like "Do you like hot dogs?" and they unleash a diatribe about the evils of eating meat. A diatribe is an angry speech that strongly criticizes a person or thing.
This noun is from Latin diatriba "learned discourse," from Greek diatribē "pastime, lecture," from diatrībein "to waste time, wear away," from the prefix dia- "thoroughly" plus trībein "to rub." So the origin of the word diatribe is connected to both serious study and the spending or wasting of time. In English, the original meaning of diatribe was a long and formal debate or discussion.
He should not be subjected to this sort of diatribe.
ReplyDeleteGretel Bonet
Mrs. Foster
Period. 5
She should not be here with this sort of Diatribe.
ReplyDeleteMarcelo Coppola (foster) 5
My brother should dump that girl she is sort of diatibe .
ReplyDeletecarlos garrido ms.foster p 5 6
Today one has only to go to russia, eastern europe or the arab countries to hear the same anti-semitic diatribes
ReplyDeleteFoster P:6
when i asked my friend to you like tacos she started to diatribe.
ReplyDeleteDayanay Miranda Foster P.6
I felt i was reading a diatribe from someone with a personal ax to grind, rather than a scholarly or well researched biography.
ReplyDeleteJeniffer Garcia Ms.Foster P:5
When i asked my sister if she liked to eat fast food very often she started to diatribe about how fat it can make people fat.
ReplyDeleteMaybeth Fernandez
Period 1&2
Foster
When i want shopping for dog food with my dad,he started to diatribe on my choise's of dog food.
ReplyDeleteLazaro Perez
Period:5/6
Foster
My mom started to diatribe about the choices that I make sometimes.
ReplyDeletemelissa beltre ms. fosrer p:5
I hate it when people diatribe because they see i have piercings.
ReplyDeletepaula bodan
per5&6
mrs.foster
Why is it that so many messages these days are packed with bitter personal diatribes?
ReplyDeleteCarlos Diaz
period.5
ms.foster
Republican had a strong diatribe about democratics policies.
ReplyDeleteShazira Alvarez
Ms.Foster
Period.05/06
Andy Dominguez
ReplyDeleteMrs.Foster
Period 5 & 6
Its very diatribe when you ask a girl when their on there period.
I hate when my teachers diatribe because i do one wrong thing.
ReplyDeleteCristian Hernandez
Ms. Foster
per.5
Nassir Hazim
ReplyDeletePeriod 1 and 2
Ms. allen
My teachers diatribe when everybody does something wrong.
Alvaro figueroa
ReplyDeletems.allen
period5&6
My teacher diatribe at my class all the time becuase she thinks we talk all day.
p.s "ms allen" :P
Melissa L. Gonzalez
ReplyDeleteMs. Allen
Period;1&2
After telling my parents I was not able to go to the party with them, they made such a big diatribe about how I need to get a life.
After asking my friends in a school day if they wanted to go out to the movies tonight they made a big diatribe about the reasons why i should not go out on a school day.
ReplyDeleteClaudia Ordaz
Ms.Allen
Period.1,2
Abel Gonzalez
ReplyDeleteMs.Allen
Period 1&2
I went to McDonalds and they gave me the wrong order, so i wrote a long diatribe on why i deserve free chicken nuggets.
Gabriel Lopez
ReplyDeleteMs.Allen
Period. 5&6
•I won't bother repeating his words, suffice to say they are the usual offensive diatribe.
Jennifer Viera
ReplyDeleteMs. Allen
Period: 3 and 4
The movie reviewer wrote a diatribe article about a movie saying that is consisted of too much violence.
Manuel Rodes
ReplyDeleteMs.Allen
Period:1&2
Hardly the place to attempt to disguise a right wing diatribe as gaming comment.
After failing a test my mother gave me a diatribe on how I should study better.
ReplyDeleteSarah Scazzi
Ms.Allen
Period 3
We are given a talk each morning on the day's activities, which includes a diatribe on geological formations of the canyon.
ReplyDeleteRolando Montero
P-5/6
Ms. Allen
Celine Fonseca
ReplyDeleteMs. Allen
Period 5&6
teachers give us students a dicitribeing speech when we dont do our homework.
Yaneisy Ramos
ReplyDeleteMs.Allen
Period#5&6
He then launched into a diatribe about brutality allegedly committed by the police.
i ask my teacher diatribe uqestions to get a better meaning of the leaason or work that i have to do .
ReplyDeleterocette period 5&6
mrs.allen
erika guevara p#3
ReplyDeletems.allen
The movie reviewer wrote a diatribe article about a movie saying that is consisted of too much sex and violence.