Words and phrases that have a meaning related to expostulation: (124 results)
Often used in the same context:
apercus, pompousness, ineloquent, persiflage, crudities, tsks, gaucherie, sarcasms, imprecation, shavian, sanctimoniousness, moralizer, inarticulateness, facetiousness, clownishness, grandiloquence, sneery, supernaturalism, tu quoque, orotund, peevishness, tautologies, pietism, hosanna, wishfulness, presumptuousness, panegyrics, monosyllable, claque, bons mots, drollness, weepiness, sermonic, threnody, loquacity, termagant, incoherency, twittery, mot juste, garrulousness, incredulousness, alarums, priggishness, prolixity, shtik, contumely, solecism, nabokovian, attitudinizing, charlatanry, sophistries, dilettantism, spoonerism, scatology, cri de coeur, theologizing, kyrie eleison, snippiness, homiletic, speciousness, wordiness, blitheness, dadaist, uptightness, dogmatist, archaism, yawp, raillery, harrumphing, insubstantiality, archness, forsooth, ripostes, hyperboles, commonplaces, execration, virago, ruefulness, arioso, philippic, absurdism, cavils, ironist, jackanapes, monomaniac, volubility, ungrammatically, whimsicality, tsk, jeremiad, circumlocution, scansion, zestily, inanity, indignance, excrescence, punctiliousness, onanism, spellbinder, caterwaul, wryness, inconsequentiality, remonstrance, remonstrances, reproof, expostulations, entreaty, altercation, reproofs, exhortation, protest, admonition, entreaties, protestation, recrimination, congratulation, denunciations, protestations, rebukes, reproach, reproaches, exhortations
More general:
dissuasion
Synonyms:
Also try:objection
— Adjectives for expostulation: mild, earnest, further, angry, friendly, much, gentle, serious, warm, long, indignant, more...
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