expostulative
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
expostulate + -ive
Adjective[edit]
expostulative (comparative more expostulative, superlative most expostulative)
- Synonym of expostulatory
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
- Shifty Maillard, translating frenzy into articulation; repressive with the one hand, expostulative with the other, does his best […]