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Indeed, Chris had only recently upbraided Walt and Billie for expressing their desire to buy him a new car as a graduation present and offering to pay for law school if there wasn't enough money left in his college fund to cover it.† (source)upbraided = expressed criticism towards
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He will be upbraided.† (source)
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She telephoned Dominic Poggio almost daily, and she upbraided him that his delivery service was going to the dogs.† (source)
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In the hallway, she pauses to upbraid one nursing student about an error, ensuring that she'll never make that mistake again.† (source)upbraid = express criticism towards
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Mistaking her, upbraiding her, owing her, now he needed to let her know he knew, and to get right with her and her kin.† (source)upbraiding = expressing criticism towards
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I saw him quietly upbraiding a junior associate in the hallway one evening, gesturing with a fountain pen for emphasis, and I didn't dare disturb him to say hello.† (source)
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It is much harder to work for such a person, as just when you are curtsying and Ma'am-ing them, they turn around and upbraid you for being so stiff and formal, and want to confide in you, and expect the same in return.† (source)upbraid = express criticism towards
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She was quizzed constantly, praised for her successes, and upbraided for even the smallest mistake or hesitation.† (source)upbraided = expressed criticism towards
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Upbraiding Elva had been an unusual experience for Eragon.† (source)Upbraiding = expressing criticism towards
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Mrs. Nightwing straightens her spine as she does when she upbraids one of us.† (source)upbraids = expresses criticism towards
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Doctor Mandelet paid no attention to Madame Ratignolle's upbraidings.† (source)
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1:5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.† (source)standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She upbraideth" in older English, today we say "She upbraids."
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He felt himself riding over the hills in the breezy autumn days, looking after favourite plans of drainage and enclosure; then admired on sombre mornings as the best rider on the best horse in the hunt; spoken well of on market-days as a first-rate landlord; by and by making speeches at election dinners, and showing a wonderful knowledge of agriculture; the patron of new ploughs and drills, the severe upbraider of negligent landowners, and withal a jolly fellow that everybody must like—happy faces greeting him everywhere on his own estate, and the neighbouring families on the best terms with him.† (source)upbraider = someone who expresses criticism towards
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At times, I even saw him upbraid them, though this was extremely rare.† (source)upbraid = express criticism towards
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Sometimes Ben, loping along the streets of the town, met him, hot, tired, dirty, wearing his loaded canvas bag, scowled fiercely at him, upbraided him for his unkempt appearance, and took him into a lunch-room for something to eat— rich foaming milk, fat steaming kidney-beans, thick apple-pie.† (source)upbraided = expressed criticism towards
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'We could hear in the shop Blake upbraiding Egstrom in an abusive, strained voice.† (source)upbraiding = expressing criticism towards
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