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Date: 1400-1500
Language: French
Origin: invectif, from Latin, from invehere; INVEIGH

invective

 noun
     
in‧vec‧tive [uncountable] formal
rude and insulting words that someone says when they are very angry:
He let out a stream of invective.
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