Sample Sentences forrebuke (editor-reviewed)
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She was stung by the rebuke.rebuke = severe criticism
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Minho actually recoiled at the harsh rebuke, but his face seemed more confused to Thomas than hurt or angry. (source)
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all that had been mocked and rebuked by the bloodspill in her backyard. (source)Rebuked = criticized severely
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I would not judge nor rebuke them. (source)rebuke = criticize
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But Sylvia does not speak after all, though the old grandmother fretfully rebukes her, and the young man's kind, appealing eyes are looking straight in her own. (source)rebukes = criticizes severely
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Piggy gave up the attempt to rebuke Ralph.† (source)
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After her father's rebuke she developed an even keener appetite for eggs.† (source)
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"Why, Judith," Mercy rebuked her gently.† (source)
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The Lord has a few choice rebukes for me to give them professors.† (source)
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You are spoiled girls, she twinkled, as if rebuking a kitten.† (source)
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Ah, how is it possible for the untaught heart to keep its faith, unswerving, in the face of dire misrule, and palpable, unrebuked injustice?† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unrebuked means not and reverses the meaning of rebuked. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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"Anne Shirley!" said Marilla rebukingly.† (source)
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And so I may never come to her presence, but as I suffer her knights to take me, and but if I did so that I might have a sight of her, I had been dead long or this time; and yet fair word had I never of her, but when I am brought to-fore her she rebuketh me in the foulest manner.† (source)standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She rebuketh" in older English, today we say "She rebukes."
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This is a soldier's kiss: rebukeable, And worthy shameful check it were, to stand On more mechanic compliment; I'll leave thee Now like a man of steel.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-able" in rebukeable means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
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Roy expected a mild rebuke, but his mother only smiled.† (source)
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The stern look of Mary Magdalene rebuked them; her former line of work and her harsh reformation shamed them.† (source)
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meaning too rare to warrant focus
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There is none but he
Whose being I do fear: and under him,
My genius is rebuked; as, it is said,
Mark Antony's was by Caesar.
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rebuked = checked
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