Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of a rebuking character; full of or abounding in rebuke.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Containing rebuke; of the nature of rebuke.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete Containing
rebuke ; of the nature of rebuke.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Not that he is rough with them, or querulous, or rebukeful; but that he has a strange soft smile, and a gaze they cannot answer, and a knowledge deeper far than they have of themselves.
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She flung him a rebukeful glare that he did not get.
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When he came to again, he heard a confused murmur of talk about him, and grew dimly aware that his late antagonist was standing over him, panting still and slightly swaying, and that an officer, a young athlete, was saying rebukeful words.
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"Commanding officer," they heard Plume clearly answer, then in lower tone, but distinctly rebukeful.
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"You said you knew _all_ about it," Susanna complained, her eyes rebukeful, her tone a tone of disappointment.
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"What?" cried Maria Dolores, surprised, rebukeful.
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Not that he is rough with them, or querulous, or rebukeful; but that he has a strange soft smile, and a gaze they cannot answer, and a knowledge deeper far than they have of themselves.
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He descended to the cabin to bid a ceremonious, and, it may be, tacitly rebukeful adieu.
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Frenchmen are permitted to say so much more than we are, and I'll be rebukeful on the score of his excesses.
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I should have come to you, Kate, but that grand rebukeful tone you had taken up this last twenty-four hours repelled me; and finally, I took counsel with myself.
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