All 5 Uses of
rebuke
in
Babbitt
- Bustling into the dining-room, moving each glass a quarter of an inch, rushing back with resolution implacable on her face her gray and silver-lace party frock protected by a denim towel, Mrs. Babbitt glared at him, and rebuked him, "Certainly not!"†
Chpt 8 *
- He had a sharp instinctive belief that he could put his arm around her, but he rebuked himself and with excessive politeness he saw her to the car, drove her home.†
Chpt 24
- Incredulously he remembered that he had by his roaring familiarity with them laid himself open to the patronizing of youths whom he would have kicked out of his office; that by dancing too ardently he had exposed himself to rebukes from the rattiest of withering women.†
Chpt 29
- Next morning he hated himself that he should have sunk into a position where a fifteenth-rater like Fulton Bemis could rebuke him.†
Chpt 29
- It chastely rebuked the restless husbands, yet brought them a message of healing.†
Chpt 30
Definition:
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(rebuke) criticize severely; or such criticism