scold

"I really want to give it up. Every day I scold myself and tell myself to quit: no more, no more."

From Barron's ● May 31, 2026

As Mr. Clark tells us, an allegation against the pastors was set in motion in 1835 by Count Finck von Finckenstein, a nasty moral scold and the villain of the story.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

‘You can’t degrade the travel experience for decades and then scold people for dressing to endure the experience.’

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 26, 2026

"Now I'm braver, so I go along with it when they scold me."

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2025

He’d yell at Javier, scold him for pulling such a vicious joke on them all.

From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro

"You should have been united and thought in a politically intelligent way to ensure we got one or two women elected," she scolds the women.

From BBC ● Feb. 1, 2026

Viorst, who scolds herself and peers for whining too much, says life is too short for hurt feelings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 31, 2025

And when moral scolds seized on excerpts of “Ulysses” — citing the Comstock Act’s ban on sending “obscene” material via U.S. mail — she protested.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2025

But on the other hand, these scolds may prove to be canaries in the media coal mine.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2025

“Ay, Tío, don’t start,” Lucinda scolds, pretending to be disgusted.

From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez

"You're never going to earn respect for doing that sort of thing," a tutor scolded the teens.

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026

Her sister-in-law, Millicent Sedra, also spoke and scolded women who expect husbands to share housework.

From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026

During a particularly chaotic debate last week, she scolded her opponents’ incessant interruptions and called out what she considered a double standard over her behavior.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026

In the denial, the patent commissioner scolded Hunt for allowing “his discovery to slumber” for so long, saying he submitted an application only to “strangle” someone else’s invention, presumably Howe’s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026

I scolded him and he scolded me back.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell

"I had imagined us being together until we're old, her scolding me until we're old, but now I can't hear her voice any more."

From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026

In 2018, he issued his most famous scolding, decrying the court’s failure to take up California’s 10-day waiting period.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

They’re like, “You should be out there scolding people who use this term colloquially.”

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026

Later, he took a scolding tone when he insisted — yet again — that the negotiations would soon end the war, “subject to ignorance or stupidity getting in its way.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026

She kisses my cheeks, scolding me for taking such a risk, leading me into the old kitchen where they live.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron