rebuke
Example Sentences
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In a stressful, often cruel environment, it felt less like a performance, and more like a merry rebuke.
In an unusually strongly worded rebuke, the International Monetary Fund on Wednesday urged China to reorient its economy toward consumption and scale back “unwarranted industrial policy” to “mitigate international spillovers.”
It’s unpredictable, a rebuke this day, an embrace the next, all depending on the moment and the speaker.
Because that designation is typically used for foreign adversaries, the move would mark an unusual rebuke of a U.S. company.
The U.S. ambassadors to France and Poland have also gotten into disputes with the countries in which they are stationed, drawing rebukes from Paris and Warsaw.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
