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scoldings

noun as in censure

Weak matches

  • chewing out
  • talking to

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Example Sentences

Old Sally's scoldings didn't matter, nor Marty's smug confidence.

He is too heart-broke about ye a' ready to have any scoldings left, an' he was never hard to ye.

They would scold too, but she knew them and their scoldings; they were not very bad, and were soon over.

This was the result of the various and profuse scoldings which he had undergone for calling young Count Alexis "Prince."

Like many other cross people, he was excessively difficult to be pleased in one article—the way people took his scoldings.

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On this page you'll find 11 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to scoldings, such as: reprehension, rebuke, reprimand, rating, berating, and chiding.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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