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to expostulate

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To protest or remonstrate; to reason earnestly with a person on some impropriety of conduct.

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Not only is he a skilled speaker, but he had many interesting subjects on which to expostulate, peppered with many examples and experiences.

It seems odd that Tony Wilson is not around to expostulate and wax provocatively at all the eulogies and sadness of the past week.

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.

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".

"You old-fashioned Victorian father, you," she cried, her heart heaving with burgeoning feminism as she slammed the front door shut and bustled along the tree-lined avenues of the London suburb of Morningside Park to expostulate at length on women's rights.

They have come out of their way to find a doctor — not for themselves but as a useful addendum to Sanditon's delights, upon which Parker likes to expostulate, to the exclusion of every other theme: He could talk of it for ever.

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When one school official underlined Ms. Calkins's point that teachers didn't need to assign book reports, the woman next to me expostulated, "That I don't agree with".

Mr. Whittle has been here before — expostulating to parents and investors the need for education reform and offering a sweeping plan to put it into effect.

The storytellers don't edit or expostulate or exaggerate - the worse the events, the plainer their words, and Sacco attends to their simplicity.

You're not still on chlorine ?" people expostulate.

His characters will sometimes "expostulate" their dialogue instead of simply saying it.

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