objurgate
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It is customary to objurgate Thackeray as too moral.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury
Let his fellows grumble and objurgate, said he; they would cringe to him when he became a dragoman, with his pockets stuffed with piastres.
From A Book of Ghosts by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
He found various relishes, condiments, and preserves, and what not, all of which he tasted, some of which he enjoyed, and some of which he seemed to objurgate in choice Kickapoo.
From Stories by American Authors, Volume 3 by Various
If you step on one after nightfall, it will be useless to objurgate.
From A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. by William Chauncey Bartlett
I was so filled with anger when I read this note that I openly objurgated "His Wife's Deceased Sister."
From The Magic Egg and Other Stories by Frank Richard Stockton
And at his confession they shrieked and objurgated him in the pithy rhetoric of the locality.
From The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million by O. Henry
They all objurgated Jimmy for his luck as he drove off.
From The Stowmarket Mystery Or, A Legacy of Hate by Louis Tracy
If he objurgated the haste, he did it silently.
From Our Pilots in the Air by William Perry Brown
"I—I think I have heard of it," he said at last, and objurgated himself for his stammering banality.
From The Silver Butterfly by Howard Chandler Christy
He was thinking of those two dear women, as he called them to himself, objurgating himself for his unworthiness to be the kinsman and lover of one, the friend of the other.
From Mary Gray by Katharine Tynan
On all sides zealotry raises and shakes a protesting hand; on all sides it shrieks, objurgating, threatening.
From The Book of Khalid by Ameen Fares Rihani
In another case a woman rushed into the street, alternately objurgating and pleading with the spirits, who, she said, were vexing her child which had convulsions.
From Travels in West Africa by Mary H. Kingsley
Mentally objurgating Sophy, and with an unpleasant impression in his mind of the unknown neighbor who had been helping Miss Sally in his place, he nevertheless tried to collect himself gallantly.
From Sally Dows by Bret Harte
The sailor-man, who had been objurgating straight ahead all this time, now weighed anchor and put the boat in towards shore.
From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 14, July 2, 1870 by Various
