broadside

1. (nautical) One side of a ship above the water line; all the guns on one side of a warship; their simultaneous firing.Examples: "Broadside! What fools to face our guns!"

2. (by extension) A forceful attack, whether written or spoken.Examples: "Although slaveholders managed - through a combination of political compromise and ideological broadside - to contain the threat of a major anti-slavery compaign by fellow Southerners, planters could never be totally sure of non-slaveholders' loyalty to the social order."; "Fernández's diplomatic broadside follows the British government's decision last month to name a large frozen chunk of Antarctica after the Queen – a gesture viewed in Buenos Aires as provocative."; "He delivered a broadside to the RMT leadership, saying: "This response to a significantly enhanced offer exposes their true priority - using the British public and NR workers as pawns in a fight with the Government."broadly