expostulatory

a. 忠告的, 训诫的

词形变化

more expostulatory 比较级 most expostulatory 最高级

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Of, characterized by, or exhibiting expostulation.

    It is unquestionably a "Tendenzschrift," apologetic and expostulatory in tone, designed to defend and expound the writings and traditions of the Rabbis, whose "instructive parables and tales . . . are so many miniature paintings of the habits, manners, and modes of thinking, of an ancient people at a remote period of antiquity" ("Essay," London ed., 1826, p. 81).

    1927, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados Mysteries Carrados divined an exchange of private glances, expostulatory from the husband, playfully defiant on her part.

词源

From expostulate + -ory.

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