Crossword-Solution: EXPOSTULATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Expostulate | v. i. | To reason earnestly with a person on some impropriety of his conduct, representing the wrong he has done or intends, and urging him to make redress or to desist; to remonstrate; -- followed by with. |
| Expostulate | v. t. | To discuss; to examine. |
We have 16 clues for the answer “EXPOSTULATE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| MAKE friendly remonstrance | 1 answer |
| MAKE remonstrance | 1 answer |
| Reason earnestly | 1 answer |
| inveigh | 17 answers |
| remonstrate | 20 answers |
| Deprecate | 24 answers |
| Warn | 40 answers |
| Admonish | 40 answers |
| minify | 47 answers |
| Kick ___ | 50 answers |
| chasten | 52 answers |
| ACT as a drag | 52 answers |
| MAKE harsh noise | 57 answers |
| Argue | 58 answers |
| Except | 76 answers |
| Reason | 84 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with EXPOSTULATE (5)
Then D’Arnot would expostulate with him, saying: “You must not eat like a brute, Tarzan, while I am trying to make a gentleman of you.
Here are two infinitives, with the prepositive omitted, “expostulate” and “attempt”, both dependent on the noun “time”, and another, “withdraw”, without the prepositive, dependent on “attempt”: “but when ‘twas time {to} expostulate, {to} attempt {to} withdraw”, etc.
Hob would expostulate: “I’m an amature herd.” Dand would reply, “I’ll keep your sheep to you when I’m so minded, but I’ll keep my liberty too.
From this unseemly state he was roused by a message from his dear lady, which a little revived him; and then the friar took the advantage to expostulate with him on the unmanly weakness which he had shown.
Some of his intimate friends continued to expostulate with him for using this almost dead and virtually illiterate patois.
Quotes with EXPOSTULATE (3)
As a fantasist, I well understand the power of escapism, particularly as relates to romance. But when so many stories aimed at the same audience all trumpet the same message — And Lo! There shall be Two Hot Boys, one of them your Heart’s Intended, the other a vain Pretender who is also hot and with whom you shall have guilty makeouts before settling down with your One True Love — I am inclined to stop viewing the situation as benign and start wondering why, for instance, the …
My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.
I had great Reason to consider it as a Determination of Heaven, that in this desolate Place, and in this desolate Manner I should end my life; the Tears would run plentifully down my Face when I made these Reflections, and sometimes I would expostulate with myself, Why Providence should thus compleately ruine its Creatures, and render them so absolutely miserable, so without Help abandon'd, so entirely depress'd, that it could be hardly rational to be thankful for such a Life.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1987).