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argue, complain, or criticizeIn Shakespeare's time, remonstrance was used as a synonym for display, revelation, or manifestation.
- When she has a complaint with her staff, she will remonstrate quietly and in private.
remonstrate = criticize or argue
- The lawyers will remonstrate that we're starting without a written agreement, but we trust each other.
- Henry wished to dissuade me, but seeing me bent on this plan, ceased to remonstrate.Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein
- In fact, during the strikes I was often in the position of remonstrating with some of my more wayward colleagues who did not want to abide by our agreement.Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom
- he immediately wrote her a letter of unqualified disapproval and remonstrance.Kate Chopin -- The Awakening
- Dorothea quietly persisted in spite of remonstrance and persuasion.George Eliot -- Middlemarch
- But as all my remonstrances produced no effect upon Queequeg,Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
- "Wait till some other time, I—I don't want to—"
But her remonstrance came too late; Mandy had yanked her forward and was performing the introduction...Grace MacGowan Cooke -- The Power and the Glory - But at first chance Hamilton commenced to "remonstrate" against the mission to France.David McCullough -- John Adams
- I cannot see you acting wrong, without a remonstrance.Jane Austen -- Emma
- She might object, remonstrate, shed tears, talk of his being too old, and plead that her life would be rendered miserable.Charles Dickens -- Nicholas Nickleby
- And yet he has played her faithful lapdog ever since, never remonstrating, never accusing, never confronting her with his feelings.Cassandra Clare -- City of Bones
- And, in spite of all remonstrances and advices to the contrary, King Pelles struggled out of his costly robe, which he popped over Lancelot's head.T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
- I shrugged my shoulders, however, and rested silent, for Van Helsing had a way of going on his own road, no matter who remonstrated.Bram Stoker -- Dracula
- His mind remonstrated with him over this thought, that part of his mind trained by his mother and his church.Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains
- The other two were remonstrating with the one who had let us go.Wladyslaw Szpilman -- The Pianist
- ...they had plundered and stripped the inhabitants, totally ruining some poor families, besides insulting, abusing, and confining the people if they remonstrated.Benjamin Franklin -- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- Indeed, Professor McGonagall sank back into her chair at the staff table after a few feeble remonstrances and...J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- "But why are you angry?" remonstrated Tikhon,Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
- Adam remonstrated, "What are you getting upset about?"John Steinbeck -- East of Eden
remonstrate = criticize
remonstrate = argue, complain, or criticize
remonstrating = arguing in protest or opposition
remonstrance = argument in protest or opposition
remonstrance = argument in opposition
remonstrances = arguments in protest or opposition
remonstrance = argument in protest or opposition
remonstrate = argue, complain, or criticize
remonstrance = argument in protest or opposition
remonstrate = argue, complain, or criticize
remonstrating = arguing in protest or opposition
remonstrances = arguments in protest or opposition
remonstrated = argued in protest or opposition
remonstrated = argued in protest or opposition
remonstrating = arguing in protest
remonstrated = argued in protest or opposition
remonstrances = arguments in protest or opposition
remonstrated = protested
remonstrated = argued in protest or opposition
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