expostulative
English
Etymology
From expostulate + -ive.
Adjective
expostulative (comparative more expostulative, superlative most expostulative)
- Synonym of expostulatory.
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter VI, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book VII (The Insurrection of Women), page 262:
- Shifty Maillard, translating frenzy into articulation; repressive with the one hand, expostulative with the other, does his best