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upbraiding

noun as in admonition

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noun as in tongue-lashing

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Following an uproar, that action was reversed within a day, but it raised suspicions that it was undertaken to punish Mainers for their Democratic governor’s public upbraiding of Trump at a Washington meeting.

That sort of upbraiding from a judge before trial has even begun should chill any trial lawyer to the bone.

“Some of those folks deserved an upbraiding,” said Dr. Gillespie, 44, the Emory professor.

His critics say he’s made a career of upbraiding Black people to white audiences.

Another video shows Matsumoto upbraiding a man in a white van.

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

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