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Animadvert

verb
(past & past part. animadverted; pres. part. animadverting)
1.
Express one's opinion openly and without fear or hesitation.  Synonyms: opine, sound off, speak out, speak up.
2.
Express blame or censure or make a harshly critical remark.





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"Animadvert" Quotes from Famous Books



... call these observations coarse, if you please; but I have no idea that the Sophias and Carolines of any man breathing are to eat national veal, to drink public tea, to wear Treasury ribands, and then that we are to be told that it is coarse to animadvert upon this pitiful and eleemosynary splendour. If this is right, why not mention it? If it is wrong, why should not he who enjoys the ease of supporting his sisters in this manner bear the shame of it? Everybody seems hitherto to have spared a man ...
— Peter Plymley's Letters and Selected Essays • Sydney Smith


Words linked to "Animadvert" :   reprimand, animadversion, declare, censure, editorialise, criminate, editorialize


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