Expostulation

"Expostulation" in a Sentence (2 examples)

At length, by dint of much wriggling, and loud and incessant expostulations upon the unbecomingness of his hugging a fellow male in that matrimonial sort of style, I succeeded in extracting a grunt […]

The official declined to listen to any expostulations.

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