scold

Medicine and public health have long communicated like a scold, especially about women’s bodies.

From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2026

It could have even been to scold Russian President Vladimir Putin.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

"They mostly expressed how heartbreaking it was for them to see me like that. They didn't scold or criticise me. Their approach was gentle."

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

"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

“You are not to repeat those bad words, or you’ll get a mouth full of hot peppers,” she’d scold.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago

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

From Slate ● Aug. 17, 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

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

When a dashingly-clad officer addresses such a frumpishly dressed bum, he scolds him, as an officer in any army must.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

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

From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026

“Please do not raise your board. We’ve talked about this before,” the chairwoman scolded when Porter tried to hold up a “Financial Services Bingo” card during a 2019 hearing on debt collection.

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

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

Inside, Sean’s mother scolded someone in her rough voice.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff

The announcement also follows previous comments from Grande scolding people to “be gentler and less comfortable commenting on people’s bodies.”

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 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 the dentist scolding you for not flossing more often may not own the business anymore.

From Slate ● Mar. 17, 2026

But Cronin wasn’t done, later admonishing a reporter for what he considered a dumb question, then scolding the reporter for allegedly raising his voice at him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026

But it wasn’t scolding, the way he said it.

From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen