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calling down

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But Ive made a clean breast of it to dad, and though he gave me a hard calling down, hes forgiven me.

Abe paused looking hurt, and asked if they did not deserve everything he was calling down upon them.

We arrived on the noon train and we sure did get a calling down—of course we were forbidden to do it again.

And the people that heard thought what an awful calling-down Baxter had got.

"It's a good thing Rachel Lynde got a calling down; she's a meddlesome old gossip," was Matthew's consolatory rejoinder.

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On this page you'll find 459 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to call down, such as: denunciation, objection, animadversion, aspersion, blast, and brickbats.

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

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