Definition of "expostulating" [expostulating]

• Present participle of expostulate. (verb)

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• "Morales may have yet to stir up the kind of expostulating Chavez has seen, including, amongst other things, calls for his assassination by U.S. evangelist Pat Robertson, though reaction so far to the Bolivian president's move has ranged from contemplation to outright disappointment."
• "How I love the image of Jennifer Morrison as Kate Keller expostulating, "Why must I be surrounded by fricking idiots?"!"
• ""We'll send for the bird later," he told the landlady, who, still mildly expostulating as she followed them downstairs, failed to notice that the captain of the detectives had carelessly left the door to Daughtry's rooms ajar."