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scold
verb as in find fault with
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Example Sentences
She cried and scolded him, promising to visit and repeating what she had said when he came out to her all those years before: “I wish you told me sooner.”
One Japanese mother, who didn’t want to be named, said she was scolded by her husband for considering an epidural when their baby was almost due in 2021.
But Keynesian economists and Ministry of Finance scolds will oppose supply-side tax reform.
In his Instagram post about the incident, O’Keefe alleged that a friend of the woman who scolded his manner of sitting told him, “You’re not the minority anymore.”
When finally she ran out of the henhouse with the exciting news, her mother did not scold her but patiently listened to her daughter’s account of her first scientific observation.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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