Crossword-Solution: EXPOSTULATION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Expostulation | n. | The act of expostulating or reasoning with a person in opposition to some impropriety of conduct; remonstrance; earnest and kindly protest; dissuasion. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “EXPOSTULATION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| an exclamation of protest or remonstrance or reproof | 1 answer |
| dissuasion | 5 answers |
| remonstrance | 74 answers |
| demur | 79 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with EXPOSTULATION (5)
This you promised to do, and this, if common report says truly, you have neglected.” “And how have I neglected it?” asked Ferrier, throwing out his hands in expostulation.
But suddenly he was aware of a commotion, issuing from the direction of Annixter's room, and the voice of Annixter himself upraised in expostulation and exasperation.
The conductor called for fares, and received an English shilling, which, after some ineffectual expostulation, he pocketed, but gave no change.
For any dweller of the Southwest who would have the land soak into him, Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey," "Ode: Intimations of Immortality," "The Solitary Reaper," "Expostulation and Reply," and a few other poems are more conducive to a "wise passiveness" than any native writing.
Now it would have taken a fairish dose to disgust Wiltshire.—Again, the idea of publishing the Beach substantively is dropped—at once, both on account of expostulation, and because it measured shorter than I had expected.
Quotes with EXPOSTULATION (1)
I Hear the sledges with the bells - Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells - From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells. II Hear the mellow …