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   Phi·lip·pic

   /fəˈlipik/

   

   noun

   • 1. a bitter attack or denunciation, especially a verbal one: literary "the lecture was a tremendous philippic against our culture"

   Word Origin late 16th century: via Latin from Greek philippikos, the name given to Demosthenes' speeches against Philip II of Macedon, also to those of Cicero against Mark Antony.

   Scrabble Points: 20

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