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

The movie doesn’t quite know how to handle Mabel: She’s meant to be charmingly determined but comes across as more of a scold and a busybody.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026

“You can’t degrade the travel experience for decades and then scold people for dressing to endure the experience,” he said.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 26, 2026

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.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2025

Sass did not even have the energy to scold me when I let the ghee boil over into the fire or forgot to sweep the courtyard.

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan

Maybe you could call it a tea party wokeness, purged of pedants and scolds.

From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026

Americans are funny like that: We tend to feel we know better than pinch-lipped moral scolds what’s best for our lives.

From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2026

In another, her daughter scolds her for leaving her expensive cheer uniform in the back of her Bronco for weeks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

"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

“Bad! You are bad!” my mind scolds me.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

“You’re as defiant ... a defendant as this court has ever seen,” District Judge Matthew Barrett scolded her.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026

At one point, the judge even scolded the officers for being too lenient with her.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has scolded reporters who ask basic questions about the war’s justification or objectives.

From Salon ● Mar. 17, 2026

Earlier this month, Punch's situation began looking up when zookeepers at Ichikawa City Zoo, near Tokyo, posted that he was gradually integrating with a troop of monkeys -- "playfully poking others and getting scolded".

From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026

“You left those on too long on the first side, by the way,” Mari scolded.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

"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

But even while tacitly admitting Kirk’s scolding was unfair, she still insisted she was grateful for the “fatherly tough love.”

From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026

The other man, after getting to his feet, appears to continue scolding Ritchson before the actor and his family drive off.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2026

Big Ma didn’t stop scolding until the bluish-green Volkswagen was well on its way.

From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia