Rebuke

Definitions

A harsh criticism.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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