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expostulationnoun a feeling or declaration of disapproval or dissentdespite the earnest expostulations of her friends, Jessica continued to date the foul-tempered guy challenge, complaint, demur, demurral, demurrer, difficulty, exception, fuss, kick, objection, protest, question, remonstrance, stink compunction, doubt, misgiving, qualm, scruplemisunderstandingcavil, niggle(chiefly British), quibbleargument, conflict, debate, dispute, dissent, hassle, quarrel, squabble, staticcensure, criticismdefiance, disobedience, rebelliondistrust, distrustfulness, dubiety, dubitation(archaic), incertitude, indetermination, misdoubt, mistrust, mistrustfulness, reservation, skepticism, suspicion, uncertaintyqualmishness, unease, uneasinessreluctance, unwillingness willingnessapproval, sanctionacceptance, acquiescence, agreement, assentcompliance, obedience in 1540 |