remonstrate
verb (used with object)
to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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We are on the lake, and I am remonstrating with Paul, who pays no heed to my words.
From Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 by Carson Jay Lee