objurgate

If you step on one after nightfall, it will be useless to objurgate.

From A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. by William Chauncey Bartlett

It is customary to objurgate Thackeray as too moral.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury

He found various relishes, condiments, and preserves, and what not, all of which he tasted, some of which he enjoyed, and some of which he seemed to objurgate in choice Kickapoo.

From Stories by American Authors, Volume 3 by Various

Let his fellows grumble and objurgate, said he; they would cringe to him when he became a dragoman, with his pockets stuffed with piastres.

From A Book of Ghosts by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

I was so filled with anger when I read this note that I openly objurgated "His Wife's Deceased Sister."

From The Magic Egg and Other Stories by Frank Richard Stockton

And at his confession they shrieked and objurgated him in the pithy rhetoric of the locality.

From The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million by O. Henry

He objurgated his clumsiness and went on, picking his way more cautiously.

From Brother Copas by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

Gerald, thus objurgated, walked through into a large room, low-ceilinged as are all rooms situated on the entresol floor of a Paris house.

From The End of Her Honeymoon by Marie Belloc Lowndes

His dreams broke off with a sardonic laugh, a repetition of the tone in which he had objurgated the ship-master.

From Java Head by Joseph Hergesheimer

They go on, debating, denouncing, objurgating: loud weltering Chaos, which devours itself.

From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle

That proved conclusively that the mysterious gunboat flying the Cuban flag was in no humour to be trifled with; and the Spanish captain, objurgating vehemently, rang down for his engines to stop.

From The Cruise of the Thetis A Tale of the Cuban Insurrection by Cyrus Cuneo

Then when he felt himself in the right mood, he feverishly improvized the play, laughing over the jokes, weeping over the pathetic moments and objurgating the evil deeds of the more despicable characters.

From How to Write a Play Letters from Augier, Banville, Dennery, Dumas, Gondinet, Labiche, Legouvé, Pailleron, Sardou, Zola by Brander Matthews

Then he relieved his feelings by objurgating the panic-stricken Somalis, whose superstitious minds interpreted the appearance of the air-borne host as a sure indication of war.

From The Wheel O' Fortune by Louis Tracy

He was thinking of those two dear women, as he called them to himself, objurgating himself for his unworthiness to be the kinsman and lover of one, the friend of the other.

From Mary Gray by Katharine Tynan