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adjective

Definition of vociferatingnext
as in vocal
engaging in or marked by loud and insistent cries especially of protest vociferating union members angrily marched outside corporate headquarters

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vociferating

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verb

present participle of vociferate
as in shouting
to speak so as to be heard at a distance he can never seem to voice his opinions at a decent decibel level; he has to vociferate

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vociferating
  1. vocal
  2. outspoken
  3. yelling
  4. vociferous
  5. blatant
  6. noisy
  7. clamorous
Adjective
  • The applause Edwards earned for just being there, against the nervous advice of GOP leaders, soon gave way to vocal anger over the Trump administration’s wrecking ball that’s vandalizing jobs and public services, such as veterans’ care, national parks and Social Security offices, across the nation.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 17 Mar. 2025
  • The set was nominated for best Latin pop album at the Grammy awards and best pop vocal album at the Latin Grammys.
    — Thania Garcia, Variety, 17 Mar. 2025
Definition of vocal
Adjective
  • Duckworth, herself a disabled veteran, has been particularly outspoken, calling the Administration’s actions a betrayal.
    — Nik Popli, TIME, 20 Mar. 2025
  • The actress, whose big break came in another big musical, the remake of West Side Story, has drawn her own controversy for being a little bit outspoken, there is that.
    — Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 20 Mar. 2025
Definition of outspoken
Verb
  • Three were arrested, including — and here’s perhaps the wildest part — an unrelated man who showed up armed at the scene hours later, after a relative told him about the shooting, surrendered his firearms to police and began yelling at them.
    — Joanna Allhands, The Arizona Republic, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Everybody was yelling his name.
    — Bruce Feldman, The Athletic, 26 Dec. 2024
Definition of yelling
Adjective
  • Biden's backers were vociferous in their defense of the president, pointing to his 2020 victory and subsequent accomplishments to hammer his critics.
    — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 9 July 2024
  • And the tiny town of Dalton, Georgia, home of the largest solar panel manufacturing plant in the western hemisphere and source of about 2,000 jobs, is in the district represented by Marjorie Taylor Greene, a vociferous climate-change skeptic who has nonetheless cheered the factory.
    — Bob Woods, CNBC, 12 Jan. 2025
Definition of vociferous
Adjective
  • The blatant stupidity of what is being done by our country‘s executive leadership is staggering.
    — Lisa P. Rimland, Hartford Courant, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Culturally, the combination of blatant racist fear mongering and the anti-woke movement has delivered their message for the future.
    — Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Mar. 2025
Definition of blatant
Adjective
  • Uniformity In Spectral Reflectance: Satellites that acquire images at the same hour and angle are inherently less noisy and therefore the computer vision models’ accuracies improve.
    — Elizabeth Duffy, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Last summer, a small but noisy group of venture capitalists, many of whom had criticized left-of-center workplace norms, endorsed the candidacy of Donald Trump.
    — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
Definition of noisy
Adjective
  • During an epidemic that otherwise made life hectic and clamorous, the militarized languor of the residents was glaring precisely because Liberians who were already displaced from the recent Civil War felt abandoned by the government.
    — Edna Bonhomme, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2025
  • The free-spirited aesthetic is characterized by loose silhouettes, exotic prints and eclectic details (think fur vests, intricate embroideries and clamorous jewelry).
    — Hannah Malach, WWD, 26 Feb. 2025
Definition of clamorous
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