berating
Example Sentences
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Top of Wooden’s list was an insistence that Close could succeed without berating players.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026
Then as now, Martin chose a polite but firm approach to Trump, who spent much of the question-and-answer session berating US allies for rebuffing his calls to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
From Barron's • Mar. 17, 2026
There is romance, drama, pathos and the verbal berating of hotel staff and music video directors.
From Salon • Dec. 24, 2025
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.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 25, 2025
He ignored his threat to begin at zero if anyone did that and made do with berating them.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
