Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- With reproof or reprehension.
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Examples
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"It isn't fair, all the same; you don't play the game," and as my mother had already gone into the dining-room to sit rebukefully at a foodless table I followed her.
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Somehow it lookd rebukefully strong, majestic, there in the delicate moonlight.
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It was Mrs. Graham who rebukefully sent her own braw young brood scurrying homeward through the gathering dusk, and then possessed herself of Mrs. Plume.
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"You actually defend them!" she marvelled, rebukefully.
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Somehow it look'd rebukefully strong, majestic, there in the delicate moonlight.
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Northern June -- lingered not long with us, but, filling the once peaceful glens and valleys with her pathos, stole away rebukefully before the savage enginery of man.
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"Where are we to find them?" half-rebukefully echoed the young Episcopal clergymen.
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Somehow it look'd rebukefully strong, majestic, there in the delicate moonlight.
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"Where are we to find them?" half-rebukefully echoed the young Episcopal clergymen.
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Somehow it look'd rebukefully strong, majestic, there in the delicate moonlight.
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