upbraid

How To Use upbraid In A Sentence

• Its bright black eyes were alert and watching, ready to upbraid or condemn or love, same as any capable adult thing. WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
• Clara looked momentarily disconcerted but wasn't about to concede defeat after upbraiding Nicholas a moment before.
• Lord Allen may have been wrong in his head, or ill-advised, or foolishly over-zealous, but his ill-tempered upbraiding of the Dublin Corporation for what he called their treasonable extravagance in thus honouring Swift, whom he deemed an enemy of the King, was the act of a fool. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish
• Back on land where we could sink safely into the snow up to our ankles and giggle at our own bravery, there was an angry woman who didn't speak English, upbraiding us in a way that needed no translation.
• Oh she played ignorant when I upbraided her, but I suspect she knew exactly what she was doing.
• He went to classes smartly dressed in a shirt and tie, and upbraided his fellow pupils for not being suitably attired.
• Even though he was not the producer of Nine, some of the council members began to upbraid him about the fact that there were no African-Americans in the cast of Nine. Howard Kissel: The War Between Dream Girls and Nine
• 'And shall I entitle the wretch to upbraid me with his generosity, and his pity; and perhaps to reproach me for having been capable of forgiving crimes of such a nature? Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7
• Invariably, he would publicly upbraid those members of the clergy he deemed to be unconverted.
• In newspaper articles she consistently upbraided those in authority who overstepped their limits.