dressing-down
Example Sentences
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His famous dressing-down of his senior staff, actual quiet professionals, should be considered at some length:
From Slate • Apr. 13, 2026
But Nigerian officials said they remembered the televised dressing-down Trump gave South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa in a Washington meeting in May.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 9, 2025
In a recent dressing-down of Bezos in the Atlantic, former Post executive editor Martin Baron, once a fan, wrote: “Now we know Bezos is no Katharine Graham.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2025
“He says, ‘You’re not welcome here,’” Ms. Pollini said, crying as she recalled the intensity of his dressing-down.
From New York Times • Feb. 8, 2024
She’d get a dressing-down from the mechanics for that, in the unlikely event she actually survived this never-ending nightmare.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
