Meanings of remonstration in English

She had managed to offer a correction without also making it a remonstration.

The man did not appear to take kindly to his remonstration.

I'm right behind you.' He held up his hands to forestall Jack's renewed remonstration.

His performance of pained confusion makes it a one-sided remonstration, against his wife, himself or God.

This quiet remonstration was alien, their behavior strange, and because of it all the fight left my voice.

Osserc shook his head in remonstration.

Anya snatched up her folio and trotted after him in silence: no remonstration, no pleading, not even a tear.

He inclined his head until the empty sockets of the beast skull seemed to stare at her in direct remonstration.

Brenda was opening her mouth for a fresh remonstration when a shout from a paramedic took her over to another victim.

The fact that the remonstration, mild as it was, came from the usually supportive Tennessee only induced Oram to harden his position.

The interlocking devices of the Petrarchan form allow a seamless movement between remonstration (lines one to three and nine to 11) and demonstration.

She rushed out her front door, turned and shouted up remonstration and got caught in the undertow as the Bonniface unleashed the urine once more.

Further remonstrations died in his throat as Gwen squeezed past him, her gun ready.

You could hear the male flight attendant's monotonous remonstrations.

Williams won the next game, and continued her tearful remonstrations with a supervisor on the changeover.

Much less could he indulge in tender remonstrations in the open street, though he was near it.