The word 'expostulate' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It means to express strong disapproval or disagreement with someone's actions or behavior. An example sentence using 'expostulate' would be: "I cannot help but expostulate at the audacity of his proposal to cut funding for the arts." This sentence expresses the speaker's strong disapproval of the proposed action.
It seems odd that Tony Wilson is not around to expostulate and wax provocatively at all the eulogies and sadness of the past week.
Damn'd fools!' You can hear Morris expostulate," and it's clear she is cheering him on.
On the morning of the wedding, two opponents of the marriage from Anna's mission headquarters outside the city leapt on horseback and rode in at top speed "to expostulate with the Edwards' and Mr Clapp".
Under the circumstances, it was perhaps understandable that the prospect of Q's "250 best albums" of that magazine's life time should have prompted this paper's own Alexis Petridis to expostulate despairingly: "That's it.
You're not still on chlorine ?" people expostulate.
The basso profondo sobs and shouts, the tenors stutter, shriek and expostulate, the sopranos rush up and down their scales, uttering the very sounds of semi-comic disaster Kerbel's words describe.
"THIS isn't the end," expostulates Leo, Frederica's small son, as the serial story being read to him comes to a final stop.
In a stained-glass window at Canterbury Melchior is pleading, Balthazar expostulating and young Gaspar, gazing at the star, just sensibly trying to establish where they are.This is the classic rule of three.
As the down-and-out Erie Smith, he spends most of O'Neill's play expostulating to the night clerk of a decrepit New York hotel, and he inhabits the stage as if he'd never known another home.
He ran out of the house, down its long, curving driveway, and onto the sidewalk, still expostulating with the Almighty: "Lord, give me another chance….
Paul Sutherland, a robust white-haired man who witnessed the final gun battle between Tsarnaev and the police, cheerfully expostulated for any correspondent who hadn't interviewed him yet.
