remonstrate
verb (used with object)
to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval.
remonstrative
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a word derived from
remonstrate.
Example Sentences
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Today’s street paintings contain dispatches that proliferate across the city sphere — lovely, challenging, angry, remonstrative and even desperate.
From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2020
Soviet spokesmen at the U.N. and in Moscow stress that his main purpose there will be more remonstrative than comradely.
From Time Magazine Archive
They know from experience that I burst into tears at the first harsh or remonstrative word.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
The letter itself was virtually endless in length, overwritten, teaching, repetitious, opinionated, remonstrative, condescending, embarrassing—and filled, to a surfeit, with affection.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
“Branwen,” said the princess in a remonstrative tone, “is that the way to speak of your own father?”
From The Hot Swamp by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
