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 […]
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Expostulation
Synonyms for "expostulation" (49 found)
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Closest matches (10)
Strong matches (15)
Related words (24)
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More general
9 entriescommunicatingcommunicationcritiquedebatediscourseexclaimingexclamationexpression of disapprovalprotest
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6 entriesCollocations
6 entriesacademic expostulationearnest expostulationmoral expostulationpublic expostulationsustained expostulationvehement expostulation
Inflections
1 entriesDerivations
3 entriesSample sentences
2 total sentences available.
The official declined to listen to any expostulations.
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