declamationnoun [ C or U ]
uk/ˌdek.ləˈmeɪ.ʃən/us/ˌdek.ləˈmeɪ.ʃən/formala strong statement or an occasion when you express something with a lot of feeling:
He subjected us to half an hour of impassioned declamation against the new airport runway.
Declamations against the press are common enough.
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Ways of talking
- -mouthed
- babel
- blab
- blather
- declamatory
- drone
- drone on
- hold the floor idiom
- lyrical
- meanderings
- rabbit
- rabbit on
- sink to a whisper idiom
- tattle
- telegrammatic
- throw
- undertone
- waffle
- whisper
- yap
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