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berating
adjective as in faultfinding
noun as in admonition
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- dressing down
- talking-to
noun as in invective
noun as in jeremiad
noun as in rebuke
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noun as in revilement
noun as in reviling
noun as in scolding
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noun as in scurrility
noun as in scurrilousness
noun as in tirade
noun as in tongue-lashing
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noun as in vituperation
Example Sentences
He then started berating Allensworth, seeming to ask him, “Are you a man?” more than once before leaning into the microphone behind the chair to address the crowd.
The father had come to the son’s bedroom, and was berating his wife about a misplaced letter from an insurance company.
The Yale Humanitarian Research Lab added that it was investigating images and videos "allegedly showing RSF shooting at people crawling away from them and berating and using ethnic slurs".
The first minister's security team is reported to have aided in retaining people from berating Swinney on the stage.
His children, Kelly and Jack, vacillated between showering him with affection and berating him for not catering to their whims.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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