- present participle of scold.
scolding
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The scolding scribes want to cast the choice as either human or not, black or white.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
But even while tacitly admitting Kirk’s scolding was unfair, she still insisted she was grateful for the “fatherly tough love.”
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026
But the dentist scolding you for not flossing more often may not own the business anymore.
From Slate ● Mar. 17, 2026
Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra significantly declined as more Democrats entered the contest and Porter dealt with the fallout from videos of her cursing at an aide and scolding a reporter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026
“It’s nothing. Just an old box of lacemaking supplies I left there by accident. I wanted to come and get it before I get a scolding from my mother. We’re going now.”
From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook
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.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2024
There was no need to apologize to those fans who basked in The General’s epic on-camera scoldings of players and refs.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2023
They had a habit of stealing Shukkur’s unripe guavas, plums and mangoes whenever they visited, prompting scoldings from their grandfather.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 6, 2023
The I.M.F., which usually reserves such scoldings for developing nations, on Thursday doubled down on its message.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2022
I remember being punished— sent to my room without dinner, deprived of this or that, firm scoldings.
From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth
