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scoldings

noun as in censure

Weak matches

  • chewing out
  • talking to
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In ‘Three Years on the Great Mountain,’ Cristina Moon shares how martial arts, rigorous training and ‘scoldings’ can help you discover your true self.

You get scoldings for all sorts of things, and it’s one of the first things anyone who comes to train at Chozen-ji has to figure out how to deal with.

Members of the Comédie de Genève technical crew responded with a long letter, describing “multiple instances of disrespect, scoldings, taunting, scenes of drunkenness and humiliations, as well as chaotic organization.”

“Washington Democrats are wasting time with bizarre public scoldings instead of engaging actively in the border security discussions required to complete a viable national security supplemental,” the Kentucky Republican said.

There was no need to apologize to those fans who basked in The General’s epic on-camera scoldings of players and refs.

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

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