scolding

Example Sentences

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This isn’t about scolding parents for feeding their children unhealthy foods.

From The Wall Street Journal

In this episode, Amanda unpacks her combative style with reporters, including scolding the press and calling their questions “stupid.”

From Salon

The online response to the art was painfully scolding and prudish.

From Salon

He also wasn’t shy about scolding dining companions who committed such sins as buttering their bread or not eating all their vegetables.

From Los Angeles Times

A couple of shots did that in the seventh, but Donovan's use of the head saw him on the end of another scolding and perhaps fortunate not to lose another point.

From BBC