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- noun Plural form of
objurgation .
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Examples
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Aside from "objurgations"-- but I really wanted some alliteration there.
On Violence and Restraint in The Dark Knight Ed Howard 2008
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We felt very wicked at having attempted anything so audacious within the walls of the episcopacy, and so the wedding took place according to the current cant, with everybody popping up, and kneeling down, and responding, more or less, to the stream of objurgations that issued from the nervous and tone-deaf young commentator, all together now, Who Do We Appreciate?
Leap Year -- Day John 2008
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One, or no examples suffice to provide more than enough support for his paltry and overstated objurgations.
On Violence and Restraint in The Dark Knight Ed Howard 2008
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From Swift's A Tale of a Tub to Pope's Dunciad, from Byron's English Bards and Scotch Reviewers to Carlyle's objurgations against just about everything, literature has a long history of satire, gossip, and even revenge.
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From Swift's A Tale of a Tub to Pope's Dunciad, from Byron's English Bards and Scotch Reviewers to Carlyle's objurgations against just about everything, literature has a long history of satire, gossip, and even revenge.
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The parson dashed his wig to the ground, and emulated his pupil in the loudness of his objurgations.
The Virginians 2006
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He hurled objurgations, in the Canton dialect and bad Malay, against the group of slave-girls standing a little way off, half frightened, half amused, at his violence.
Almayer's Folly 2006
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The tipsy drivers dashed gallantly over the turf, amidst the admiration of foot-passengers, the ironical cheers of the little donkey-carriages and spring vans, and the loud objurgations of horse-and-chaise men, with whom the reckless post-boys came in contact.
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Apparently this took place soon afterwards; for ere Tressilian and his guide had proceeded far on their journey, they heard the screams of a cracked female voice, intermingled with the classical objurgations of
Kenilworth 2004
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A moment after a promiscuous mass of half-clad beings hurried into the attic, where, amid the d閎ris of fallen plaster, laths, etc., the horror-stricken dame was venting her objurgations upon the author of this mishap.
Ralph Rashleigh 2004
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