spiel
IPA: spˈiɫ
noun
- A lengthy and extravagant speech or argument usually intended to persuade.
- (music) An early form of rap music.
- A game of curling.
verb
- (intransitive) To talk at length.
- (intransitive) To give a sales pitch; to promote by speaking.
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Examples of "spiel" in Sentences
- It still reads like a company spiel.
- Forgive the mixed metaphors and the spiel.
- It is factual without being a marketing spiel.
- Our standard spiel is to describe our work in the region.
- Aplogies if this not the correct place to put this spiel...
- There is now a big spiel on homosexuals in the introduction.
- Because this whole spiel you replied with is a perfect example.
- So much for holly's spiel about the vineyard being undervalued.
- Teenagers saving the world spiel is seen all too often, but O.K.,
- Alas, he is terrible at it his spiel faltering, his moves spasmodic.
- "Her spiel is about relationships and making the best of your relationships."
- Today the sales spiel is that variation (a) isn't a safe bet, either, because "minor league" soccer on the West Coast may be ending soon.
- Shore Revised ends with the ubiquitous shot of the politician with his family and the ubiquitous spiel about him fighting for his family and yours.
- The spiel is a mix of ecology, myth-busting (water moccasins are not found in this region) and safety tips (most bites occur when someone is trying to catch the snake).
- That spiel from the photographer about his battle against sexual inequalities and such is nothing more than a thinly-veiled attempt to get some feminist backside waving in front of his semi-erect self, and to get some hench pictures of boobies and so forth.