Rebuke

/ɹiˈbjuːk/ · noun

Meaning

(of a person) A harsh criticism..

Definitions by Sense

1. (of a person) A harsh criticism.
2. (of a person) To criticise harshly; to reprove.

Example Sentences

There was the sternness of an old-fashioned Tour patron in his rebuke to the young Frenchman Pierre Rolland, the only one to ride away from the peloton and seize the opportunity for a lone attack before being absorbed back into the bunch, where he was received with coolness.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance met Saturday with the Vatican's No. 2 official, following a remarkable papal rebuke of the Trump administration’s crackdown on migrants and Vance’s theological justification of it.

With his emphasis on accepting the science (he was a trained chemist) – and hence his stern rebuke to the climate change deniers and the politicians who courted them – he even managed to reset the relationship between science and religion, which had been rocky ever since Galileo fell foul of the Inquisition 400 years earlier.

O Lord, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.

When Morrison mulls the pluses and minuses associated with rebuking Kelly for undermining the government’s public health messaging, the prime minister faces a genuine substantive dilemma, and that goes to the risks of amplification.

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Word Forms

• rebukes
• rebuking
• rebuked

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