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expostulation
noun
(ex-pos-tu-la-tion)
the act of expressing earnest opposition or protest
Synonyms:
objection
,
remonstrance
,
remonstration
,
expostulation
noun
(ex-pos-tu-la-tion)
an exclamation of protest or remonstrance or reproof
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expostulation
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objection
,
remonstrance
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imprecation
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cri de coeur
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philippic
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jeremiad
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apercus
,
pompousness
,
persiflage
,
crudities
,
tsks
,
gaucherie
,
sarcasms
,
shavian
,
sanctimoniousness
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moralizer
,
inarticulateness
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facetiousness
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clownishness
,
grandiloquence
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sneery
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supernaturalism
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tu quoque
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orotund
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peevishness
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tautologies
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pietism
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hosanna
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wishfulness
,
presumptuousness
,
panegyrics
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monosyllable
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claque
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bons mots
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drollness
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weepiness
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sermonic
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threnody
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loquacity
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termagant
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incoherency
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twittery
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mot juste
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garrulousness
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incredulousness
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alarums
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priggishness
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prolixity
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shtik
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contumely
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solecism
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nabokovian
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attitudinizing
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charlatanry
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sophistries
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dilettantism
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spoonerism
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scatology
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theologizing
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kyrie eleison
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snippiness
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homiletic
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speciousness
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wordiness
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blitheness
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dadaist
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uptightness
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dogmatist
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archaism
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yawp
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raillery
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harrumphing
,
insubstantiality
,
archness
,
forsooth
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ripostes
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hyperboles
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commonplaces
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execration
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virago
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ruefulness
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arioso
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absurdism
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cavils
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ironist
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jackanapes
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monomaniac
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volubility
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ungrammatically
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whimsicality
,
tsk
,
circumlocution
,
scansion
,
zestily
,
inanity
,
indignance
,
excrescence
,
punctiliousness
,
onanism
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spellbinder
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expostulation
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