| Expostulation (n.) The act of expostulating or reasoning with a person in opposition to some impropriety of conduct; remonstrance; earnest and kindly protest; dissuasion. Thesaurus Entries admonishment, advice, advising, advocacy, alarm, briefing, castigation, caution, cautioning, caveat, chastisement, chiding, consultation, correction, council, counsel, determent, deterrence, deterrent example, direction, example, exhortation, expostulation, final notice, final warning, forewarning, frightening off, guidance, hint, hortation, idea, instruction, intimidation, lecture, lesson, monition, moral, notice, notification, object lesson, objurgation, opinion, parley, proposal, rap, rating, rebuke, recommendation, remonstrance, reprehension, reprimand, reproach, reprobation, reproof, reproval, scolding, sermon, spanking, suggestion, talking out of, thought, threat, tip-off, ultimatum, upbraiding, verbum sapienti, warning, warning piece, wig |