a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack; diatribe.

a long, passionate, and vehement speech, esp. one delivered before a public gathering.

any long, pompous speech or writing of a tediously hortatory or didactic nature; sermonizing lecture or discourse.

to address in a harangue.

to deliver a harangue.

noun

address , chewing out , declamation , diatribe , discourse , exhortation , hassle , jeremiad , oration , philippic , reading out , screed , sermon , speech , spiel * , spouting , tirade , fulmination

verb

accost , address , apostrophize , buttonhole * , chew out * , declaim , exhort , get on a soapbox , go on about , hold forth , orate , perorate , rant , rave , soapbox , spiel * , spout , stump , talk to , yell at , mouth , diatribe , hassle , jeremiad , lecture , oration , scolding , screed , sermon , speech , spiel , tirade