rebukeful
adjEtymology From rebuke + -ful.
1
Obsolete Full of rebuke; highly critical.
- He descended to the cabin to bid a ceremonious, and, it may be, tacitly rebukeful adieu.1855 October–December, Herman Melville, “Benito Cereno”, in Billy Budd and Other Stories, London: John Lehmann, published 1951, →OCLC, page 187:
- Derived terms
- rebukefulness
- Related terms
- rebukefully