reˈbukative, a. rare.
[f. rebuke v. + -ative.]
Disapproving, rebuking. So reˈbukatively adv.
| 1924 ‘O. Douglas’ Pink Sugar iii. 30 Miss Dickson..asked if we had called yet.. and added, rather rebukatively, that Mr. M'Clandish had called at once. 1950 ― Farewell to Priorsford 219 Do you suppose she meant gangsters or only what Jane Austen called ‘less worthy females’? No, Janet, I'm not backbiting, so don't look so rebukative. |