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• The remark earned me a stern rebuke.From the entry stern
• Of course, Dahal was rebuking his political rivals and not directly discriminating against Dalits.2024 November 8, Mitra Pariyar, “Dahal’s casteist slurs”, in The Kathmandu Post. From the entry casteist
• Thersites , a chronic complainer, scolds Agamemnon for miscommand, and is rebuked and beaten by Odysseus.1998, Coles Notes, The Iliad, page 28. From the entry miscommand
• The house wore the startled doggy air of having been undeservedly rebuked.1993, John Banville, Ghosts. From the entry doggy
• He had not been squelched. he had not been feased by the feigned rebuke of the Hon.1916 February, Jim Blythe, "The Corn-Cob Club", Public Service Magazine 20, H. J. Gonden, Chicago, page 48. From the entry feeze
• In a rare Trump-era rebuke of ICE, U.S.2025 September 27, Ted Hesson, Brian Snyder, Heather Schlitz, “ICE tactics inflame tensions in New York, Chicago and other cities”, in…. From the entry Tricia
• Regan looked blank for a moment; then turned around to Sharon and grinned, her mouth full of braces and shy rebuke.1971, William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist, New York: Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 24. From the entry Regan
• Whenever a policeman made a mistake he was either brought on the carpet before the Mayor or rebuked by the Magistrate.1915 January 4, “Ellison Must Go, Police Now Think”, in New York Times, retrieved 12 Sep 2008, page 18. From the entry on the carpet
• While this treatment had its toughening effects, none the less did the Landmark’s icy rebuke mortify and silence us.1909 October 18, “Querying ‘Worse’”, in The Times-Dispatch, number 18,047, Richmond, Va., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 2. From the entry gingerly
• Woodward’s mild rebuke of Tatis received backlash from most players who spoke out, and even Woodward backtracked and reexplained himself the next day.2020 August 22, Adam Kilgore, “Baseball’s unwritten rules may be softening, but they haven’t gone away”, in The Washington Post. From the entry backtrack
• In the past several months, Gap, Versace, and Coach have all been rebuked by the Chinese government for doing this very thing.2019 October 7, Joe Vardon, “Daryl Morey, Joseph Tsai, the NBA and China: Why the repercussions of a tweet are about more than money”, in…. From the entry macao
• Fu’s virtuous life has been a sore rebuke to the old lady who spends her days gossiping, feasting and gambling with her old cronies.1915, “Missions”, in Missions: American Baptist International Magazine, volume 6, American Baptist Convention, page 672. From the entry po po
• Two decades have passed since those words, rebuking wrong in high places, were uttered, and the speaker has since passed over to the silent majority.1907, Andy Adams, chapter 21, in Reed Anthony: Cowman. From the entry silent majority
• Copland's own criticism of Gebrauchsmusik as a “contaminated” musical style can also be read as a rebuke of its ties to musical styles associated with the culture industry.2009, Elizabeth B. Crist, Music for the Common Man: Aaron Copland during the Depression and War, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 76. From the entry Gebrauchsmusik
• This sense of determination, the famous determinism that Freud is rebuked for, is in truth more of a parody of nineteenth century Laplacean determinism than its extension.1991 [1990], John Forrester, The Seductions of Psychoanalysis: Freud, Lacan and Derrida, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 95. From the entry Augustinian
• Rebuking me gently, a friend has remarked that these days I have been doing an injustice to Kathiawaris: I always describe them as men given to too much talking.1924, Mahatma Gandhi, May-Aug. 1924, page 170. From the entry Kathiawari
• They viewed the power shift and diversity as a symbolic but meaningful rebuke of the Islamophobic rhetoric that was a central theme of then Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign.2023 June 17, Tom Perkins, “‘A sense of betrayal’: liberal dismay as Muslim-led US city bans Pride flags”, in The Guardian, archived from…. From the entry meaningful

Meaning of rebuke

1. noun A harsh criticism.
2. verb To criticise harshly; to reprove.

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How do you use rebuke in a sentence?

Rebuke is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The remark earned me a stern rebuke.”

What is a short sentence with rebuke?

“The remark earned me a stern rebuke.”

What does rebuke mean?

Rebuke means a harsh criticism.