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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



... in honour, for the stipend he received was little more than twelve pounds a year. I do not trouble myself or you with the calculation of Swedish ducats. Thus, my friend, you perceive the necessity of perquisites. This same narrow policy runs through everything. I shall have occasion further to animadvert on it. ...
— Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark • Mary Wollstonecraft
... the class of men by whom houses of this description are generally kept, and to shew the certainty they have of accumulating riches, as well as to guard the young and inexperienced against being decoyed, it may not be amiss to animadvert upon a few of the most prominent ...
— Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. • Pierce Egan


Words linked to "Animadvert" :   reprimand, opine, censure, declare, sound off, speak up, animadversion, editorialize, editorialise, speak out, criminate


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