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animadvert an-uh-mad-VURT verb to express one's self fearlessly; to harshly criticize 1862North AmericaIt is true that in that letter the Secretary declared that in case of any future seizure the vessel seized must be taken into port, and so declared in animadverting on the fact that Captain Wilkes had not brought the 'Trent' into port.1889The Blue Fairy BookIt is not our business to animadvert upon these lines; we are not critics, but historians.Labels: Andrew Lang, Anthony Trollope
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