upbraid
Example Sentences
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But one day a close friend upbraided me for shunning Black Friday, insisting that such antisocial tightfistedness was inherently un-American.
Goettman and Miyares “aggressively upbraided the Commissioner and bullied her to cancel the primary for Senate District 17,” the suit says.
From Washington Post
Last September, Fauci upbraided Paul for suggesting that New York City had enough infections to approach herd immunity.
From Salon
Randall is African American, so it hit home harder when he then upbraided the City Council and some of the other candidates for purporting to speak for minority communities about this issue.
From Seattle Times
That makes one narrative permutation — in which Kay upbraids Cyril for being so downcast by the coronavirus pandemic’s harm to the British economy — particularly tart.
From Seattle Times
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