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Boehner became the second senior party member in as many days to publicly rebuke Bachmann over the comments.
Her stage version is sharp witted, broad minded, steeped in art history, a woman with a soft spot for gay men, even for lefties, who would never be mean enough to – allegedly – rebuke the police for eating her Bombay mix, or – really – pay below the living wage at Windsor Castle.
Rush Limbaugh's attack on Sandra Fluke – in which he called her a "slut" and demanded that she post videos of her sex life on the i nternet – sparked a national rebuke , leading Rush to do what he rarely ever does: apologize.
The car plants and specialist engineering firms dotted around Britain are a rebuke to those who argue that global capital is inevitably engaged in a race to the bottom.
The remark drew a stern rebuke from Erdoğan, who reminded the leader that it was Turkey that bankrolled the breakaway republic and guaranteed its security through the presence of some 35,000 mainland troops.
The player retaliated moderately, which brought the following curt but unfortunate rebuke from our then manager, Gordon Milne: "If somebody in the crowd spits at you, you've just got to swallow it".
If anything, her blog is a colourful rebuke to the commenters who sneer that people on benefits should just make a cheap lentil stew to last them all week: "I do use lentils in my cooking – I make polenta bolognaise, I make burgers out of them – but I do get infuriated by people who say, 'Oh, just eat lentils.' Actually if you were to buy a bag of dried lentils it would cost you a couple of quid.
Even Haneke would approve of the suffering of Tim Roth in Reservoir Dogs, taking the entire film to bleed out through his stomach, as messily and agonizingly as you could wish for – and a deliberate rebuke to the casualness of bullet-wounds in every other movie you've seen.
Alluding to dysfunction in policymaking is a more insidious rebuke than recusal from a single policy.
The UK intelligence services have created a global audience for the spectacle of him beating them with a big stick of indignant rebuke.
Last week, Pakistan's prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, travelled to Kabul to deliver an unprecedented public rebuke to the Taliban, which is engaged in a brutal summer campaign of violence.
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The primary grammatical function of "rebuke " is to serve as both a verb , indicating the action of expressing sharp disapproval or criticism, and as a noun , representing the expression of disapproval itself. Ludwig confirms its proper usage.
Expression frequency: Very common
