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rebuke English

Meaning rebuke meaning

What does rebuke mean?
Definitions in simple English

rebuke Verb

— If you rebuke someone, you tell them that they did something bad. Sohan rebuked his children for their mistakes.

rebuke

— verb (= rag, dress down, scold) censure severely or angrily The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car The deputy ragged the Prime Minister The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup — noun an act or expression of criticism and censure he had to take the rebuke with a smile on his face

Synonyms rebuke synonyms

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rebuke English » English

reprimand scold reproach reprove blame reproof admonish censure chide upbraid condemn berate tell off scolding abuse admonition warn lecture exhortation reprehend exhort disapprove of disapprove admonishment reproval reprehension warning take to task objurgate criticize correction chew out check taunt revile reject dress down discipline curse criticism counsel correct caution bawl out yell at withhold trounce tool tell someone off spurn

Topics rebuke topics

What do people use rebuke to talk about?
Social behavior Law Trial

Accuse, confront
Language and thought Communication Say Criticize

Insult
Social behavior Conflict Peace

Rebuke

Conjugation rebuke conjugation

How do you conjugate rebuke?

rebuke · verb

Examples rebuke examples

How do I use rebuke in a sentence?

Simple sentences

He took it for an implied rebuke.

Movie subtitles

Any attempts to supply provisions of inferior quality will be met by severe rebuke.
Severe rebuke. Do I make myself clear, gentlemen?
We cannot rebuke an officer who has administered discipline according to the Articles of War.
We judge and criticize others, rebuke them.
Your Majesty is right to rebuke us.
Liar. I deserve the rebuke.
Do I detect a rebuke?
I rebuke the spirit ofdrugs in the name ofJesus.
I rebuke thee.
No rebuke too vile.
It was a weak rebuke at best.
Let me suss out that new trim, Johnny, before I earn some added rebuke.
His ineffable self-deceptions. for example, which were your joy in life to rebuke. and purpose, so far as you had one.
Now. instead of information. would your true goal be. further rebuke?
And He shall judge among the nations. and shall rebuke many people. and they shall beat their swords into plowshares. and their spears into pruning hooks.
We praise and rebuke out of necessity.
I deserve the rebuke.
I had to rebuke her once in a while.
And when did you rebuke her for the first time?
It's not a rebuke, I was just worried.
The chorus of women's lamentations rise to the heavens allowing Eteocles to rebuke them with a few well-chosen words.
A rebuke from the minister, press statement about their incompetence, the withholding of grants or ultimately, as you are fully aware.
But I frequently rebuke him for that.
Rebuke me.
I believe it will be your last rebuke, at least at this school.
I myself shall give him a scathing rebuke.
Do not rebuke him, child.
Don't rebuke me.
Your rebuke stings.
Give me thy hand. These others I rebuke.
Very reluctantly explicit rebuke officer Who saved the revolution, not once, but twice.
My name, which I have fought to personally edit, Thy rebuke ruined.
This rebuke to the exemplary gives hope to millions unfavored by the exceptional.
How does sharing observations make me liable to rebuke?
After you and me talked, I searched that idiot Steve out. to rebuke him and smack him in the face for being who he was.

News and current affairs

Unsurprisingly, China's pampered leadership now acts as if the country actually is exceptional and can get away with polluting outer space without rebuke.
People once fascinated by Putin now publicly rebuke him.
Liu's prize is a rebuke to the regime, because it rejects the dogma that nothing but the pursuit of economic interest matters.
That rebuke is being applied to perhaps Europe's most successful economy, for Ireland has the EU's second highest budget surplus, its second lowest level of public debt, and by far the highest growth in the 1990's of countries in the Monetary Union.
The Pakistani public demanded a quick, decisive rebuke of Britain from the country's leadership.
STANFORD - November's mid-term elections were a sharp rebuke to the vast expansion of government spending, deficits, and debt in the United States.
Thus, the election results should not be viewed primarily as an endorsement of the Republicans, but as a rebuke to the Democrats' agenda, which voters believed was out of touch with their concerns, interests, and values.
For the system of official atheism and legalized mendacity, the Church was a living rebuke.
Facing an extraordinary rebuke from the Bank's ministerial oversight committee and open revolt from his professional staff, Wolfowitz has faint hope of limping through the last three years of his term.
Strengthening the state and fostering a stable and growing economy would also provide the best rebuke to the FARC and its bid for time.
After a policeman died, live ammunition was fired into the crowds - killing a journalist, Bwizamani Singh, and provoking a rebuke from Reporters without Borders.
Reactions like these ought to be far more worrying to China's leaders than any rebuke from a group of Norwegians.
But Kan stumbled out of the gate by calling, during his first press conference, for a weaker yen - a statement that drew an instant rebuke from Hatoyama.
Fortunately, Japanese voters sense their government's irresolute nature, delivering it a sharp rebuke in the recent elections to the upper house of Japan's Diet.
Zimbabwe's neighbors also face a choice: they can use their proximity to halt Mugabe's abuses, or to shield him from international scrutiny and rebuke.
He chose to portray what was a cynical alliance of convenience between Israel and the Christian Phalange as a lesson to humanity and a rebuke of that hypocritical Christian Europe which had betrayed the Jews during the Holocaust.

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