Rebuke

Quick meaning: Rebuke is a noun meaning (of a person) A harsh criticism.

Meaning

(of a person) A harsh criticism.

More Meanings

1. (of a person) To criticise harshly; to reprove.

Example Sentences

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

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• rebukes
• rebuking
• rebuked

Synonyms for rebuke

Depending on context, synonyms include reproach, reproof, reproval, reprehension, reprimand, admonition.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include reproof, reproval, reprimand, reprehension, chide, lambaste.

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