Expostulation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for EXPOSTULATION in dictionary:

VERB:
• express strong disapproval or disagreement
NOUN:
• an act or an instance of expostulating
• The act of expostulating or reasoning with a person in opposition to some impropriety of conduct; remonstrance; earnest and kindly protest; dissuasion.
• the act of expressing earnest opposition or protest
• an exclamation of protest or remonstrance or reproof

Words related to EXPOSTULATION

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Words that contain EXPOSTULATION

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How to use EXPOSTULATION in a sentence

• A king could dismiss his most powerful minister, or his most triumphant general at the head of an army, by a stroke of the pen, or by a word, without expostulation or resistance.
• Expostulation of the Emperor Maximilian with his sister.
• The conductor escaped from the car before Miller had time for further expostulation.
• Further, the immense multitude of their flocks and herds may be judged of from the expostulation of Moses with Jehovah.
• He yielded to this expostulation, though he might have made considerable trouble by insisting upon retaliation.
• His patience was already exhausted, and he proceeded in his expostulation, in language that she was by no means prepared to endure with apathy.
• Falkland was deeply affected with this expostulation.
• It is therefore impossible that he could have resisted a frank and fervent expostulation, the frankness and the fervour in which the whole soul is poured out.
• I paid him a half-piastre for it, which is half the proper price, and utterly ignored his expostulation.
• He called her in tones of command, entreaty, expostulation, and impatience.
• I nodded that it was all right, and up went the two black hands in expostulation and amazement.
• Her wrongs were her defence? she was sacred from intrusion, from expostulation and entreaty.
• Expostulation and active warfare, however, are equally useless.
• The first, a very wild and plaintive air, was the expostulation of a girl whose lover has deserted her and married another.
• At last, after eager pleading on one side and stolid expostulation on the other, a small package passed from the hand of the young woman into the huge paw of the man.
• I had protested against their doing so, but they mistook my expostulation for approbation.
• I heard some one moving inside, and for a moment I thought I heard the sound of voices in angry argument or expostulation.
• He had expected a scene in a quiet way, a refusal, at least expostulation.
• William made no answer to this expostulation, but resolved he should see him no more.
• This was an expostulation, in which his majesty observed, that he and his allies could not fail of being alarmed at her great preparations by sea and land.
• After some expostulation, the Doctor was persuaded to put the gun away.
• Many good stories are told of his serious expostulation with persons who had made some jesting statement in his hearing which he received with immense gravity.
• His tone was one of mild expostulation, mitigated by the intimation that all misunderstanding speedily would be cleared away.
• His sufferings went beyond the power of mad expostulation to express, and came nigh to produce upon his features the aspect of a saintly resignation.
• Beaumont turned on his nephew a look of angry expostulation, which stung him to the soul.
• Avoiding all expostulation, or indeed all chance of further intercourse with his parents, he removed from Ribblesdale with the utmost privacy.
• It had a long and earnest preface of expostulation with the atheism and mocking spirit that were the legacy to his time of the Court of the Restoration.
• Amine, with her lip curled in contempt, and without resistance and expostulation, allowed them to do their work.
• This was answered by an expostulation from the Valencian shopkeeper, who said that they had not so much money, but what they had would be given willingly.
• The voices of men, one in entreaty, one in expostulation, came from the box.
• Hilbery, or saw him gaze at the scene round the tea-table with an expression of the utmost disgust and expostulation.
• We should gain more of the sympathy of our countrymen who differ from us, by a calm expostulation than by bitter invective.

Similar words containing POSTULA without suffix tion and without prefix ex

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