rebuke
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- n an act or expression of criticism and censure
he had to take the rebuke with a smile on his face - v censure severely or angrily
- The Speaker rebuked the members of the house for using unparliamentary language in the House.
- Obama's rebuke of absentee black fathers may score politically, but it won't help solve the problem.
- In a rebuke to the proponents of intelligent design, Jones called the phrase "a mere relabeling of creationism," intended to get around the 1987 judicial ban on teaching .