How To Use Rebuke In A Sentence

It is a rebuke to those who grumpily accept their snail-paced status quo. Times, Sunday Times
And they are a rebuke to cultural pessimists in the West who often feel vindicated by the perfidies of the Muslim world but could stand, on occasion, to be humbled by examples of its courage. The Face of Pakistan's Courage
The national broadcaster said Pahad "rebuked Washington for pursuing what he terms a discredited neo-conservative ideology". ANC Daily News Briefing
She flung him a rebukeful glare that he did not get. We Can't Have Everything
The incoming House speaker presumptive has joined top GOP spokespeople in characterizing the election outcomes as a response to economic frustrations and a rebuke to Obama administration "monstrosities" like health care reform. Hans Johnson: Wave of Voter Anger Leaves Damage, Opportunities

Erin, the mousiest of the bridesmaids, elbowed Gladys when she noticed, only to find herself subtly rebuked with a withering glare from Cheryl, whose short brown hair and severe temperament remained unchanged for the happy occasion. Crossed
Even when, later still, the general's eager hand, stretching forth for the dusky flagon (it was sacrilege to sweep away those insignia of age and respectability), managed to capsize the candelabrum and sent the fluid "adamantine" spattering a treasured table-cloth (how quick the dash of the young trooper's hand upon the flame -- and its extinction!), a gentle smile was the sole rebuke, followed by a "Thank you, Mr. Harris. Tonio, Son of the Sierras A Story of the Apache War
Committee to claim the credit which belonged exclusively to another, he rebuked him, and asked by what right he (Mr. Clay) jeoparded the peace and harmony of the nation, in order that this or that man might receive the credit due for the origin of a bill. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861
The omission from the board is a stinging rebuke for Mr. Bucksbaum in particular. General Growth Scion Denied Seat
She rebuked her lawyer for his authoritarian attitude to her clients.
In the email, Bourne, 60, from Dawlish, Devon, apparently rebukes Withers, 29, for her behaviour during a visit to the family in April, which she describes as "staggering in its uncouthness and lack of grace". Mother-in-law's withering email to bride-to-be goes viral
What a public rebuke from the country's top boffin. The Sun
Even one minute's lateness would earn a stern rebuke.
OTTAWA—A Canadian parliamentary committee recommended that the government be found in contempt of Parliament for not fully disclosing the cost of anticrime legislation, paving the way for a historic rebuke that could trigger a third national election in five years. Historical Rebuke Nears for Ottawa
The chair sternly rebuked the audience for their laughter.
His comments brought a swift rebuke from both state and federal National Party MPs.
A veiy good rebuke of affectation, said Six – Charles (and your ladyship hints it was an effica — cious one). Sir Charles Grandison
Now, I understand not hereby those doctrinal reproofs when, in the dispensation of that word of grace and truth which is "profitable for correction and reproof," 2 Tim.iii. 16, they speak, and exhort, and "rebuke" the sins of men "with all authority," Tit.ii. 15; but the occasional application of the word unto individual persons, upon their unanswerableness in any thing unto the truth wherein they have been instructed. The Sermons of John Owen
At times we all deserve the dominical rebuke "O ye of little faith. Archive 2006-03-01
If the committee determines a lawmaker has committed wrongdoing, it may send the lawmaker a letter of reproval, akin to a rebuke.
Just four months earlier investors had delivered a stinging rebuke. Times, Sunday Times
She rebuked herself for her stupidity.
QUESTION: The Associated Press reports that in reaction to what they termed your stern rebuke of Jerry Thacker, a group called Human Rights Campaign said that while this was a positive development, the Bush administration's, quote, "Obsessive focus on abstinence as the solitary mechanism to prevent the transmission of HIV is not based on sound science. CNN Transcript Jan 27, 2003
I was rebuked by my manager for being late.
Theognis has an implicit rebuke for those who believe that aidos is a virtue of the eyes only, not also of the mouth. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
For, on a time. as a man had loosed his tongue to missay of a bishop familiar with him, he rebuked him cruelly, and said that, he should leave off or raze away these verses, or go from the table. The Golden Legend, vol. 5
His declaration is the first time a sitting Conservative MP has advocated a complete break with the EU and is sure to provoke a sharp rebuke from party whips.
You actually defend them!" she marvelled, rebukefully. The Cardinal's Snuff-Box
ROME, her treatment of conquered Latium, 314; her noble "bloods" lost, 338; she rebukes America, 392. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States
UN member countries delivered a strong rebuke to both countries for persisting with nuclear testing programs.
I did not physically punish them; a stern rebuke was effective enough.
But the king-maker promptly rebuked him, saying that he didn't want his wife to lose her job.
Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole could not leave it dangling as a rebuke to his legislative skills during his presidential campaign.
It has been a noiseless rebuke for the organisers. Times, Sunday Times
Note, the sincere and serious beggars at Christ's door commonly meet with the worst rebukes from those that follow him but in pretence and hypocrisy. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
The American voters gave Democrats clear control of Congress, rebuked President George W. Bush, and voiced an unequivocal public craving to trade in customary narrow-minded politics for something more inspiring. The Heart Of Queens | Disinformation
He hit back with a stinging rebuke to his critics.
What must have hurt most, though, was an earlier stinging rebuke from one of their own. The Sun
When a Poor-spirited Creature that died at the same time for his Crimes bemoaned himself unmanfully, he rebuked him with this Question, Is it no Consolation to such a Man as thou art to die with Phocion? Spectator, August 2, 1711
He rebukes himself for his abandonment to 'the worst voluptuousness, which is an hydroptic, immoderate desire of human learning and languages.' Figures of Several Centuries
Possible sanctions range from an embarrassing public rebuke to a fine and imprisonment. Times, Sunday Times
UN member countries delivered a strong rebuke to both countries for persisting with nuclear testing programs.
These shrimp stand in silent rebuke to their unfortunate cousins that are butterflied and flattened by less sensitive restaurants.
He also rebuked the government for failing to consult on the moves. Times, Sunday Times
It was Mrs. Graham who rebukefully sent her own braw young brood scurrying homeward through the gathering dusk, and then possessed herself of Mrs. Plume. An Apache Princess A Tale of the Indian Frontier
Elsewhere, Astbury's signature blend of metal-god narcissism and shaman-like mysticism is in full bloom on the acoustic "Holy Mountain," glammy "Diamonds" and Bush rebuke "Tiger in the Sun," which oddly resembles the Cure's "Fascination Street. Dallas Observer | Complete Issue
Just four months earlier investors had delivered a stinging rebuke. Times, Sunday Times
And thus inviolable is the covenant of grace: I have sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, as I have been, and rebuke thee, as I have done. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
This is what Jesus foresaw for the scribes and the Pharisees, and the moral caution bristles with rank and smellable detail under the painter's touch, from the begging bowl at one man's waist to the orbless, accusing eyes that another turns on us, in pleading or rebuke. The New Yorker
The use of design isomorphism by biologists is a rebuke to the critics who say that ID is about getting God into the US public school science classroom. A Dubious "Opportunity" for IDers
Members of the jury were sharply rebuked for speaking to the press.
His words were unaccented and calm as he said, in apparent good-natured rebuke, `It is not the time or the place for that, Bloodblade. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
Somehow it lookd rebukefully strong, majestic, there in the delicate moonlight. A Silent Night Ramble. Specimen Days
But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.
Bvt when these maner of solitary speaches and recitals of rebuke, vttered by the rurall gods out of bushes and briers, seemed not to the finer heads sufficiently perswasiue, nor so popular as if it were reduced into action of many persons, or by many voyces liuely represented to the eare and eye, so as a man might thinke it were euen now a doing. The Arte of English Poesie
A further rebuke took place during the first sitting of parliament.
I hated to be classed, cribbed, rebuked, and feruled at the pleasure of one who, as it seemed to me, knew no guide in his rewards but caprice, and no prompter in his punishments but passion. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793
I should have been sat in front of the television making mental notes and issuing sharp rebukes to his paper thin justifications for war.
He had more expected a sharp rebuke for sleeping late, maybe even a none-too-gentle reminder in the form of a hand to his backside.
To rebuke the seed is to forbid its growing. your -- literally, "for you"; that is, to your hurt. dung of ... solemn feasts -- The dung in the maw of the victims sacrificed on the feast days; the maw was the perquisite of the priests Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
His work, though far from didactic, is full of moral implications; his example of aesthetic idealism, set by abnegation and artistry is a standing rebuke to facility and venality, callousness and obtuseness. James Joyce
The teacher delivered a sharp rebuke to the class.
Even one minute's lateness would earn a stern rebuke.
The agency had recommended that Kairos should get $7 million, and the fact the document was "doctored" - a "NOT" was inserted to change its meaning - drew a strong rebuke from Speaker Peter Milliken. CBC | Top Stories News
Thus the ‘primary object’ of the organization would be ‘to discountenance and rebuke by moral and social influences, all disloyalty to the Federal Government.’
In the first Epistle which we have, the subject of fornication is alluded to only in a way, as if he were rather replying to an excuse set up after rebuke in the matter, than introducing for the first time [Alford]. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
It isn't fair, all the same; you don't play the game," and as my mother had already gone into the dining-room to sit rebukefully at a foodless table I followed her. Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate
We intend to show, as in the clear light of noonday, that it is the conduct of Mr. Sumner and other abolitionists, and not that of the slaveholder, which is rebuked by the life and writings of the great apostle. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject
He had to put up with a smart rebuke from the teacher.
When he came to again, he heard a confused murmur of talk about him, and grew dimly aware that his late antagonist was standing over him, panting still and slightly swaying, and that an officer, a young athlete, was saying rebukeful words. A Daughter of the Sioux A Tale of the Indian frontier
He is simple in his habits, generous and kind, obedient to those who are over him either in civil or religious matters; he is a quiet citizen; he is very fond of a little "boodle" (when he can get it), and it is looked upon as one of his virtues which he sometimes pursues to an unwholesome extent; he is called up and rebuked for it, goes away and soon begins to do it again. Canada from East to West
After that the brotha rebuked every sort of spell, malefice, witchcraft, and every form of the occult. The Exorsistah: X Returns
Ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto sons, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him; for whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and _scourgeth every son_ whom he receiveth. God's Plan with Men
All the cricketing vices for which prep school masters rebuke their charges were there.
Instead, maybe the House should look to rebuke Charlie Rangel for his $600k in unreported income. House Democrats plan vote to admonish Wilson
God will often use men to offer a verbal rebuke through prophecy or admonishment before disciplining us.
It soon turned out to be a deserved rebuke to any who desponded, along with myself, and finally prophetic. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866
Other Chelsea players also rebuked the official. Times, Sunday Times
Dougal underwent another and very close examination, in which he steadfastly asserted the truth of what he had before affirmed; and being rebuked on account of the suspicious and dangerous appearance of the route by which he was guiding them, he answered with a sort of testiness that seemed very natural, “Her nainsell didna mak ta road; an shentlemans likit grand roads, she suld hae pided at Glasco.” Rob Roy
The president rebuked the House and Senate for not passing those bills within 100 days.
But the court did issue a stinging rebuke for what it calls their indifference to their constitutional duties. CNN Transcript Dec 27, 2006
What a public rebuke from the country's top boffin. The Sun
She also rebuked her, telling her this was not a news conference, and ordered her to direct her remarks to the court.
He was criticized, he was rebuked by others in the Pentagon at the time.
There is also a rebuke against class, hierarchy and status. Times, Sunday Times
The power that they wield appears flimsy — the most serious penalty they can levy is a rebuke to firms and individuals through public notices. Archive 2008-02-01
MacWheep was a "cratur," and much given to twaddle, but when it was his duty once to rebuke a fellow-minister for quarrelling with his people, he was delivered from himself, and spake with such grave wisdom as he has never shown before or since. Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers
His bold and free demeanour, his attachment to rich dress and decoration, his inaptitude to receive instruction, and his hardening himself against rebuke, were circumstances which induced the good old man, with more haste than charity, to set the forward page down as a vessel of wrath, and to presage that the youth nursed that pride and haughtiness of spirit which goes before ruin and destruction. The Abbot
I guess I've leave it to others to decide if my novel is a rebuke to today's pop-shlock horror culture, or a part of it. Author of Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters : The Lovecraft News Network
I've delivered her a stern rebuke and promised I'll be back to conduct regular inspections.
He rebuked his scientific colleagues for the modern superstition of secularism.
The company was publicly rebuked for having neglected safety procedures.
But when Jesus turned and looked at his disciples, he rebuked Peter.
The company was publicly rebuked for having neglected safety procedures.
God's method of arresting the flood and making its waters subside is poetically called a "rebuke" (Ps 76: 6; Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Other Chelsea players also rebuked the official. Times, Sunday Times
`Now that he has put his mind to his learning,' he added heavily, and I heard there the master's rebuke of my slovenly parenting. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
Did any parish officer, indeed, turn restive, and decline to pay a Deg, he soon found himself summoned before a magistrate, and such pleas of sickness, want of work, and poor earnings brought up, that he most likely got a sharp rebuke from the benevolent but uninquiring magistrate, and acquired a character for hard-heartedness that stuck to him. International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850
OTTAWA—A Canadian parliamentary committee recommended Monday that the government be found in contempt of Parliament for not fully disclosing the cost of anticrime legislation, paving the way for a rebuke that could trigger a third national election in five years. Panel Accuses Canadian Government of Being in Contempt
She answered with no hint of rebuke.
In the last few days he has given two unpublicised talks to meetings in Scotland at which he has rebuked the Executive for failing to curb the car by investing in public transport.
Outgoing National Police Commissioner Frank Short, a salty Australian expat, has publicly rebuked Rabuka for appearing to "sympathize" with the rebels. Rebels Of The Pacific
He almost lost his job over that but escaped with a stern public rebuke. Times, Sunday Times
He rebuked the President for trying to make political capital out of the hostage situation.
It was also seen by some as an implicit rebuke to right-wing Republicans who had alienated unaligned voters by their apparent intolerance and belligerence.
Preach Bein season and out of season. Convince , rebuke , exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.
He sat rebuked in this man's presence -- this man whom, within the hour, he had called boaster and braggart, liar and coward. Allison Bain, or, By a Way she knew not
Under the guise of political virtue, it scolds, berates, rebukes, criticizes, and has a high old time doing it.
Ahern has delivered several sharp rebukes to his parliamentary party recently.
He almost lost his job over that but escaped with a stern public rebuke. Times, Sunday Times
He did rebuke them but it was usually for unbelief and pride.
Sometimes this seems almost to rebuke me, to be a heavy price to pay for a simple preference of male anatomy.
Rebuked, the unchastened Catalyst replied, `But master, you yourself foresaw this. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
They are rebuked swiftly for fiddling with pens or not paying attention as the teacher fires questions to test their knowledge. Times, Sunday Times
Nobody is beyond rebuke, particularly if they happen to have anything to do with government, and the truculent trio never worry what the fall-out might be when they decide it's time for a tongue-lashing.
While we were eating, one of the children - a boy aged about seven - behaved rather badly, and this brought a stern rebuke from his father.
This source was schtummed when Julia posted a scathing rebuke on the thread, really very angry.
Not that he is rough with them, or querulous, or rebukeful; but that he has a strange soft smile, and a gaze they cannot answer, and a knowledge deeper far than they have of themselves. Lorna Doone
He then rose and dressed himself as fast as he could; and while he was dressing, Partridge, notwithstanding many severe rebukes, could not avoid throwing forth certain pieces of brutality, commonly called jests, on this occasion. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
The manager rebuked the salesgirl sharply for being rude to customers.
Other trade union leaders were also rebuked and reprimanded, with some receiving kicks and punches.
The Press Council delivered one of its strongest rebukes in its 30 year history.
It has been a noiseless rebuke for the organisers. Times, Sunday Times
Yet, when all is said and done, we still live the same pathetic handful of decades bemoaned by the author of Psalm 90: “The number of our days is seventy years, or if generously given, then eighty…” and this is the ultimate rebuke to our clumsy modern way of being. In the Valley of the Shadow
The president rebuked the House and Senate for not passing those bills within 100 days.
This rebuke flew in the face of Hamilton's express words in his Report.
The chair sternly rebuked the audience for their laughter.
I immediately rebuked myself for the disloyal thought.
By the standards of the First World War, he was lenient in his punishments, and was rebuked by his commander for his softness in this respect.
NIV He would surely rebuke you if you secretly showed partiality.
Our repeated failure to reprove and adequately rebuke heresy calls into serious question our theological system.
He rebuked the President for trying to make political capital out of the hostage situation.
The Deacon could quote scripture in a manner which put Biblical professors to the blush, and every principle of his creed so bristled with texts, confirmatory, sustentive and aggressive, that doubters were rebuked and free-thinkers were speedily reduced to speechless humility or rage. Romance of California Life
England felt they had broken through twice, once when Mr. Katich fell across an inswinger from Mr. Anderson, only for the DRS to post an immediate rebuke to umpire Billy Doctrove, and once when Mr. Strauss called for a review unsuccessfully for a leg-before against Mr. Watson. Game On After Hussey Leads Fightback
Chelsea flushes at the mild rebuke, though she knows it's only the truth.
This criminal sensed His royalty and rebuked his fellow criminal.
Bear in mind, then, that expressions of regret over the defilement of sacred images are likely to attract rebukes from certain ‘modern’ and ‘spiritual’ types of Westerner.
There were, of course, no rebukes after seven young women tried to debag the solitary male contestant in an excess of what he labels ‘girlie-bollocks’. Big Brother's standards
Novak writes: "The sharp rebuke to Hollywood producer David Geffen, the erstwhile Clinton friend now backing Obama, was approved unanimously during a campaign conference call presided over by consultant Mark Penn. Novak: Bill Was Behind Harsh Response To Obama Donor David Geffen
If even a public rebuke fails, the final effort to restore the person will be the "disfellowship" of that person.
It was a strong rebuke. Christianity Today
Guttenberg's pronouncement was both a backtrack on his own remarks a month ago, when he called the airstrike "militarily appropriate," and a rebuke to the colonel who summoned US fighter-bombers to blow up two fuel tanker trucks stolen by the Taliban. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
It was meant as a rebuke but often resulted in flawing the final sculpture; it became too finished, too chaste, and, at times, icily dull.
When we rebuke or expose an evil, we have the duty to hope for the redemption, not the condemnation, of the sinner.
Britain's largest charity has rebuked Prince Charles for refusing to protect an endangered species of bird at the Balmoral estate.
The cast of Frasier were rebuked for ‘consuming very large ice cream cones’ and drinking alcohol to quench their thirst after exercise.
When he was incredibly late at the beginning, the judge rebuked him on that day about being late.
Old Hickory was President; how he went up to the general's private apartment, where he found him in a ragged robe-de-chambre, smoking his pipe; how, when he intimated that the President might before coming down slick himself a bit, he received the half-laughing rebuke: "Buchanan, I once knew a man in Virginia who made himself independently rich by minding his own business"; Marse Henry : an autobiography,
`Now that he has put his mind to his learning,' he added heavily, and I heard there the master's rebuke of my slovenly parenting. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
It surely brought them a stinging rebuke from their manager. Times, Sunday Times
This earned a crushing rebuke from the archaeological establishment. Times, Sunday Times
Paul writes a letter of ironic rebuke, using corrective language and ridicule, much like a parent finding a child in a compromising situation.
He rebuked the people running the review and said he expected local NHS bosses to ‘engage with local communities’.
President Obama himself has faced a stinging rebuke from congress for his comments about lawmakers '"obsession" with the war, and the Out of Afghanistan Caucus continues to chip away at what little apatite for war remains in congress. Josh Mull: All politics is local: Al-Qa'eda and the Afghanistan War
He also delivered a sharp rebuke to those who argued against the day on profit grounds.
hireling," except to utter a command or a rebuke. Fairy Fingers A Novel
It's the height of hypocracy after the way the Dems treated President Bush to turn around and rebuke Rep.Wilson. coleopter House Democrats plan vote to admonish Wilson
When a Poor-spirited Creature that died at the same time for his Crimes bemoaned himself unmanfully, he rebuked him with this Question, Is it no Consolation to such a Man as thou art to die with _Phocion? The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays
There should be a public rebuke. The Broken God
While the glass lamp rebukes the earthen for calling it cousin.
Coconut milk combines with pineapple and banana in ways that will inspire you to come up with names like coconut delight, mean green fighting machine, or cuke rebuke depending on what you're juicing. Patricia Rust: Juicing and Me
The gatekeeper, cursing the wayward steering, was then surprised to be rebuked by the Archbishop from his position in the driving seat.
Frenchmen are permitted to say so much more than we are, and I'll be rebukeful on the score of his excesses. Lord Kilgobbin
Prospero mildly rebuked all the schemers of evil.
She publicized her fury at the government with a rebuke unprecedented and unrepeated in the history of the British constitutional monarchy.
Later in June 1976 C absconded from Gwynfa, with her room-mate, for several hours and upon her return she was sharply rebuked by a Woman Police Constable.
Perhaps the most biting of all biblical condemnations of inactivity comes from the last book, when the church of Laodicea is rebuked for its do-nothing attitude. HAVE YOU SEEN MY COUNTRY LATELY?
There is also a rebuke against class, hierarchy and status. Times, Sunday Times
And when, just at the passing of that replevined Wednesday which I loaned, you rebuked the Countess Dorothy very edifyingly, I was pleased to find a man so chaste: and therefore I continued my grant of youth -- Jurgen A Comedy of Justice
Yet in 1993, when the Commandant of the Marine Corps proposed that recruits be limited to single persons only, he was publicly rebuked.
Possible sanctions range from an embarrassing public rebuke to a fine and imprisonment. Times, Sunday Times
I opened my mouth for a sharp rebuke but just then the waitress appeared, bringing our plates of burgers and fries.
Thompson's compact book also stands as a rebuke to the hefty, overstuffed volumes lugged around by today's college calculus students.
When the battle was over, Samuel came to meet him, and rebuked him as if he had been a child for what he called rebellion and stubbornness. Miriam's Schooling and Other Papers
The president rebuked the House and Senate for not passing those bills within 100 days.
-- Tony blushes her swarthy crimson: Diana, fluttering, rebukes her; but Diana is the appeasable Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
The lady, like other comforters of the cabins of the poor, proceeded to rebuke the grumbling old woman for want of order and cleanliness — censured the food which was provided for the patient, and enquired particularly after the wine which she had left to make caudle with. Saint Ronan's Well
We shall see that He adopted another tone when He was properly arraigned before the assembled Sanhedrim; but in this more private, injudicial, inquisitorial interview, with one scathing rebuke He tore away the cloak of assumed ignorance with which this crafty man veiled his sinister purpose, and laid His secret thoughts open to the gaze of all. Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI.
The manager rebuked the salesgirl sharply for being rude to customers.
He rebukes himself for his abandonment to 'the worst voluptuousness, which is an hydroptic, immoderate desire of human learning and languages.' Figures of Several Centuries
This he views as not only virtuous, but a kind of rebuke to the American and European private equity industry, which he defines as a band of financial engineering megamaestros who "pursue elephant-sized deals," ignoring, unlike the Brazilians, smaller, family-owned companies that can be tuned up and provided growth capital to expand and make everyone happy without leverage. Robert Teitelman: Brazil, America and the Realities of Private Equity
One might view Interiors as a stern rebuke for a life both unappreciated and without any sense of self-sufficiency.
He associated himself with the justiciar in the appointment of royal officials; he invoked the papal authority to put down "adulterine castles," and to prevent any baron having more than one royal stronghold in his custody; he prolonged the truce with France, and strove to pacify the Prince of North Wales; he procured the resumption of the royal domain, and rebuked Bishop Peter and the justiciar for remissness in dealing with Jewish usurers; he filled up bishoprics at his own discretion. The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377)
The rebuke or the dismissal, then, becomes more fuel for their assumption that things are always being done to them.
I realized that this self-abasement or internalized moralistic rebuke was what I had been writing about from the very beginning.
His bad manners earned him a sharp rebuke.
I've delivered her a stern rebuke and promised I'll be back to conduct regular inspections.
Apostles on the sea of _Tiberias_ in a storm so great, that the ship was covered with water and in danger of sinking, till _Christ rebuked the winds and the sea_, Matth. viii. Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John
The following week the chief executives of all the big banks said that they supported electrification in a public rebuke of the BBA. Times, Sunday Times
He immediately went into the circling routine, feeling the material of my jacket and after a lot of tut tutting rebuked me for my cheap shoes which didn't match my suit.
UN member countries delivered a strong rebuke to both countries for persisting with nuclear testing programs.
Whereupon, it being felt that the rabid anecdotist had been sufficiently rebuked, we all went out to help the veterinary look at Adolph for twenty minutes more. Somewhere in Red Gap
This between a harangue about Hardinge's incompetence and a blistering rebuke to her khansamah* (* Butler.) for leaving the salt out of the coffee. Flashman And The Mountain Of Light
She rebuked herself sharply for her stupidity.
I should have come to you, Kate, but that grand rebukeful tone you had taken up this last twenty-four hours repelled me; and finally, I took counsel with myself. Lord Kilgobbin
The chair sternly rebuked the audience for their laughter.
It surely brought them a stinging rebuke from their manager. Times, Sunday Times
While He did not oppose the use of phylacteries among His fellow Jews (unconverted Jews that is, Christian Jews didn't use them), He strongly rebuked those who merely wore them for show.
So when they held dinner-parties Scarlet skimped on the smoked salmon, and Brian rebuked her for her graceless parsimony.
Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke [reason with] thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him. On Same-Sex Couples and Catfish Derbies

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