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berating

adjective as in faultfinding

noun as in admonition

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noun as in scolding

noun as in tongue-lashing

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The following day, a 2021 video emerged of Porter berating a staffer who corrected her about electric vehicle information she was discussing with a member of the Biden administration.

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He then started berating Allensworth, seeming to ask him, “Are you a man?” more than once before leaning into the microphone behind the chair to address the crowd.

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The father had come to the son’s bedroom, and was berating his wife about a misplaced letter from an insurance company.

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The Yale Humanitarian Research Lab added that it was investigating images and videos "allegedly showing RSF shooting at people crawling away from them and berating and using ethnic slurs".

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The first minister's security team is reported to have aided in retaining people from berating Swinney on the stage.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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