rebuked

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Rebuked by his statehouse colleagues, he disappeared from his congressional race.

From New York Times • Jan. 22, 2021

Rebuked by his own party, he didn’t run for reelection.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 16, 2020

For Miss Ward perceives correctly that it is up to the U.S., as Britain's successor, to redress the world's balance Mr. Wallace Is Rebuked.

From Time Magazine Archive

Rebuked for disputing Secretary of Labor William Nuckles Doak's optimistic statement that employment was rising in 1932, he retired, drawled: "I have had a tin can tied to the end of my coattail."

From Time Magazine Archive

"N. N.," in The Lancashire Levite Rebuked, also assumes that Carrington was the author.

From A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 by Notestein, Wallace