objurgatively
adv/ɒbˈd͡ʒɜː(ɹ)ɡətɪvli/
Etymology From objurgative + -ly.
1
in an objurgative or reproving manner
- The foolish Patient still at intervals continued to break in on our discourse, which rather promised to take a philosophic turn: “But I have lost my appetite,” said he, objurgatively, with a tone of irritated pathos; “I have no appetite; I can't eat!”1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. IV, Happy”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern Worker):
- Related terms
- objurgate, objurgation, objurgative