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telling-off

noun as in lecture

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I intend to deal with him and give him the telling-off which his impudence and his treason are asking for after the battle.

To Ellerton he meant to give such a telling-off as the young man had never heard in his life before.

I met no one in Albania capable of telling off-hand how many piastres a given piece was worth.

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

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