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expostulate
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synonyms: remonstrate ???
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Definition:express strong disapproval or disagreement
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you have no desire to expostulate, to upbraid, to make a scene: you are thinking how to act—talking you consider is of no use.
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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During the course of these troubles, the emperors of Blefusca did frequently expostulate by their ambassadors, accusing us of making a schism in religion, by offending against a fundamental doctrine of our great prophet Lustrog, in the fifty-fourth chapter of the Blundecral (which is their Alcoran).
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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She stumbled into the space and stood alone, while the man behind her expostulated in Gaelic, waving his arms and occasionally pointing at her in illustration or accusation.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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"Queequeg!— in the name of goodness, Queequeg, wake!" At length, by dint of much wriggling, and loud and incessant expostulations upon the unbecomingness of his hugging a fellow male in that matrimonial sort of style, I succeeded in extracting a grunt; and presently, he drew back his arm,
Herman Melville. Moby Dick
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Miss Bingley warmly resented the indignity he had received, in an expostulation with her brother for talking such nonsense.
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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"Knock their heads off, Chambers! Knock their heads off! What do you stand there with your hands in your pockets for?"
Chambers expostulated, and said, "But, Marse Tom, dey's too many of 'em—dey's—"
Mark Twain. The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894)
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EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends.
Ambrose Bierce. The Devil's Dictionary
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heedless of my expostulations and the growling thunder, and the great drops that began to plash around her, she remained, calling at intervals, and then listening, and then crying outright.
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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the result was the ignominious capture of Racksole. In vain Theodore expostulated, explained, anathematized.
Arnold Bennett. The Grand Babylon Hôtel (1902)
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