ceaselessly, interminably,

invasion, n. 1. hostile ingress, frontier violation, irruption, aggression, attack, foray, assault, assail-ment, raid, drive, offensive, blitzkrieg.
2. incursion, intrusion, infiltration, infringement, inroad, encroachment; violation, transgression, infraction, breach, trespass,

invasive, adj. 1. invading, irruptive, offensive, attacking, incursive, besetting.
2. intrusive, intruding, interfering, interposing, obtrusive, Inf. pushy; interruptive, intervening, interloping, encroaching, insinuative; prying, Inf. snoopy, ferrety, meddlesome, overly curious, supercurious.

invective, n. 1. diatribe, tirade, philippic, denunciation; disparagement, discrediting, depreciation, deprecation, insinuation, belittlement, minimization; objurgation, fulmination, contumely, berating, upbraiding, scolding, tongue-lashing; castigation, chastisement, reprimand, admonition, reproach, rebuke, reproval, slap in the face, Inf. rap on the knuckles.
2. vituperation, railing, assailment, revilement, belaboring; curse, execration, imprecation, malediction, anathematization; condemnation, censure, accusation, accusal, blame, inculpation, incrimination, crimination, implication, Obs., Rare, accrimination, impeachment, indictment.
3. ribaldry, scurrility, billingsgate, profanity, abuse, Archaic, bawdry; obscenity, vulgarism, vulgarity, salacity, filth, dirt, smut; curse word, swearword, oath, dirty word, four-letter word, U.S. Inf. cuss; vilification, impugnment, traducement, aspersion, calumniation, calumny, obloquy, slur, defamation, denigration, slander, libel.
-adj. 4. vituperative, damnatory, execratory, animadversional; denunciatory, denunciative, disparaging, depreciatory, depreciating, deprecative, deprecatory, deprecating, derogatory, derogative, belittling; fulminatory, objurgatory, objurgative, contumelious.
5. abusive, insulting, affronting, offensive, injurious; calumnious, calumniatory, aspersive, slurring, maligning, defamatory, denigrating, slanderous, libelous, inveigh, v. 1. protest, remonstrate, complain about, object to; decry, denounce, censure, criticize, disparage; deprecate, depreciate, discredit, belittle, minimize, run or put down, Inf knock.
2. rail against, vituperate, revile, oppugn; assail, attack, abuse, belabor, lash, Inf. sail into, Inf. jump down [s.o.'s] throat, Archaic, clapperclaw; scold, rate, slate, harangue, rant, tongue-lash, curse, execrate, imprecate, anathematize; upbraid, objurgate, excoriate, lambaste, flay, fulminate against, Inf. spout off at; berate, castigate, chastise, reproach, rebuke, reprove, Inf. dress down, Si. strafe; vilify, traduce, asperse, calumniate, impugn, slur, malign, defame, denigrate, slander, libel, backbite, bespatter,

inveigle, v. 1. Usu.

inveigle into ensnare, enmesh, entangle, catch, Si. rope in, Sl. suck in, bamboozle, delude; persuade, talk into, convince, induce, move; entice, lure, allure, decoy, tempt, beguile, seduce, tantalize, pique, Archaic, trepan; wheedle, cajole, Inf. sweet-talk, coax, blandish, Sl. soft-soap, flatter.
2. Usu.

inveigle from or

away win, obtain, acquire, procure, get, get one's hands on, secure,

inveigler, n. tempter, beguiler, seducer, persuader; bamboozler, swindler, deluder; wheedler, cajoler, coax-er, blandisher. invent, v. 1. originate, discover, create, compose, excogitate; think up, Sl. dope out, hit upon; devise, contrive, work up, work out, plan, plan out; design, draft, frame, coin, mint, shape, form, construct, fashion; patent, license, register.