Michelle Obama

We are a nation founded as a rebuke to tyranny. A nation of revolutionaries who refused sovereign reign from afar. Hear me - we're a nation that says give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. A nation built on our differences, guided by the belief that we're all created equal.

American First Lady

Paul Farmer

If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should have been done to prepare for cholera... which can spread like wildfire in Haiti... This was a big rebuke to all of us working in public health and health care in Haiti.

American Educator

Roger Scruton

The robust English view used to be that the correct response to offensive words is to ignore them, or to answer them with a rebuke. If you invoke the law at all, it should be to protect the one who gives the offence, and not the one who takes it. Now, it seems, it is all the other way round.

English Philosopher

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

So then, when I speak to you, I speak to myself. If I seem to warn or to rebuke you, it is not so much you, as myself, to whom the warning or the rebuke is addressed.

English Theologian

Joel Osteen

It's in the difficult times that we're growing and you can't just rebuke everything hard. We've got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

American Clergyman

Aeschylus

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

Greek Poet

Rubina Dilaik

All my memories with my mother have been special. Even the time she rebuked or taught me things the hard way.

Indian Actress

King Solomon

Do not rebuke mockers, or they will hate you; rebuke the wise, and they will love you.

Royalty

William Feather

Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke.

American Author

J. R. R. Tolkien

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly.

English Novelist

Use 'rebuke' to show you strongly disagree with actions or opinions, not just mild dislike.

Strong Disapproval

'Rebuke' is formal and often used in written reports, official statements, or professional settings.

Rather Formal

A 'rebuke' often carries emotional weight, hinting at disappointment or disapproval from a position of authority.

Emotional Weight

'Rebuke' as a verb implies taking action to correct someone, not just expressing disagreement.

Corrective Action

The verb 'rebuke' is often used in the context of immediate or on-the-spot correction.

Immediacy

Use 'rebuke' to address personal behavior rather than mistakes in work or factual errors.

Personal Behavior

 But upon His latest rebuke, she knew she had to prove the importance of her work once and for all. She took flight from the world, withdrawing her half of the cosmic energy that kept the Earth turning. At her disappearance, a sudden, terrifying and all-encompassing scarcity

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 life and as a guide I did not rebuke a have you seen this before don't get doesn't think so Suzanne this is black-headed heron and

Rebuke

Strong Disapproval

Rather Formal

Emotional Weight

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