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Remonstrate

verb
(past & past part. remonstrated; pres. part. remonstrating)
1.
Argue in protest or opposition.
2.
Present and urge reasons in opposition.  Synonym: point out.
3.
Censure severely or angrily.  Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, reprimand, reproof, scold, take to task, trounce.  "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister" , "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"





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"Remonstrate" Quotes from Famous Books



... too soon, sir?" Mulford ventured to remonstrate; "the reef is a large one, and will make a great difference in the size of ...
— Jack Tier or The Florida Reef • James Fenimore Cooper
... flashed and dilated—his voice deepened—a fanatic ecstasy shone in his expression as he uttered these words. Shocked and grieved as I was, I made no attempt to remonstrate or to reason with him. It would have been useless to have referred to any of the usual commonplaces about optical delusions or diseased imaginations—worse than useless to have attempted to account by natural causes for any of the extraordinary coincidences ...
— The Queen of Hearts • Wilkie Collins
... at Madrid, was instructed to remonstrate energetically with General Wall, the Spanish minister, on the subject of Bussy's memorial. He was to say that as regards the prizes there were courts whose business it was to decide such matters, that England would not allow Spain any share in the fishery, but was ...
— The Political History of England - Vol. X. • William Hunt
... Alonzo must experience, if she was absent. She begged her aunt to return, as she expected the company of some ladies that afternoon. "Then they must be disappointed, child," said her aunt.—Melissa knew it was in vain to remonstrate; she supposed her aunt was bent on visiting some of her ...
— Alonzo and Melissa - The Unfeeling Father • Daniel Jackson, Jr.
... remonstrate. It was intolerable, he felt, to climb up the chimney like a hunted cat, and he began a word or two. But ...
— By What Authority? • Robert Hugh Benson


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