0 to express disagreement or complaint:
I expostulated with the boy and asked him whether the bread was intended for my house.
However, it is no good in this connection expostulating about that.
I was about to add that if there was something fundamentally unjust, surely someone would have expostulated at that time; but nobody did so.
They had to expostulate with those charged with criminal acts.
I did not finish my quotation before he opened his large mouth and started expostulating.
These old men all expostulated with one shout.
I expostulated again and again, and said it would be fatal in time of war.
Henry expostulated: could he not dump the tee-shirts there, as the conference could get on without them?
