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- express blame or censure or make a harshly critical remark
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express one's opinion openly and without fear or hesitation
John spoke up at the meeting
How To Use animadvert In A Sentence
- John Bull," and another from "An Eton Boy," animadverting upon Mr. Seekamp's grammar. The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert
- Doc Franklin observed that it was a point of great importance and wished that the gentlemen would deliver their sentiments on it before the question was put and Mr. Rutledge animadverted on the shyness of gentlemen .... Interrogations and Presidential Prerogative
- Thou takest all advantages against me; old scores are called over, every infirmity is animadverted upon, and no sooner is a false step taken than I am beaten for it. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
- Cannot our Governor animadvert upon the President's conduct without impairing the President's jurisdiction?
- I shall not take upon me to animadvert upon this; but certain it is, that Johnson paid great attention to Taylor. The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.
- I have already animadverted on the bad habits which females acquire when they are shut up together; and, I think, that the observation may fairly be extended to the other sex, till the natural inference is drawn which I have had in view throughout — that to improve both sexes they ought, not only in private families, but in public schools, to be educated together. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
- Maitland in his _Account of the Early Printed Books at Lambeth_, 1843, already takes occasion to animadvert on what he terms the puerile competition for rarities, which had then set in. The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time
- We have already animadverted on the extraordinary eagerness of the first Roman to occupy Britain.
- Nor have I been solicitous to animadvert, as thou wentest along, upon thy inventions, and their tendency. Clarissa Harlowe
- The landlord, John Mengs, who had assumed a seat somewhat elevated at the head of the table, did not omit to observe this mark of insubordination, and to animadvert upon it. Anne of Geierstein