upbraiding

  • 81reprimand — Synonyms and related words: admonish, admonishment, admonition, aspersion, attack, attaint, badge of infamy, bar sinister, baton, bawl out, bend sinister, berate, bespatter, black eye, black mark, blacken, blot, blow upon, blur, brand, bring to… …

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  • 82reproach — Synonyms and related words: accusal, accusation, accuse, accusing, admonish, admonishment, admonition, allegation, allege, allegement, anathematize, anathemize, animadvert on, arraign, arraignment, article, aspersion, attaint, badge of infamy,… …

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  • 83reproachful — Synonyms and related words: abusive, admonitory, blackening, blameful, censorious, condemnatory, contemptuous, critical, damnatory, denunciatory, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, derisive, disapproving, disparaging, execrating, execrative …

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  • 84reproof — Synonyms and related words: admonishment, admonition, castigation, chastisement, chiding, correction, lecture, lesson, objurgation, rap, rating, rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproach, reprobation, reproval, scolding, sermon, spanking,… …

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  • 85scolding — Synonyms and related words: admonishment, admonition, beef, beefing, bellyache, bellyaching, bitch, bitching, castigation, chastisement, chiding, complaining, complaint, correction, destructive criticism, dissent, faultfinding, grievance, gripe,… …

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  • 86sermon — Synonyms and related words: address, admonishment, admonition, assignment, castigation, chalk talk, chastisement, chiding, correction, discourse, disquisition, dressing down, exercise, exhortation, exposition, harangue, homework, homily,… …

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  • 87spanking — Synonyms and related words: active, activist, activistic, acute, admonishment, admonition, aggressive, agile, alive, animated, awfully, banging, bastinado, basting, battery, beating, belting, big, blustery, bouncing, bouncy, bracing, brand new,… …

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  • 88ORPHEUS —    in the Greek mythology son of Apollo and the Muse Calliopë, famed for his skill on the lyre, from which the strains were such as not only calmed and swayed the rude soul of nature, but persuaded even the inexorable Pluto to relent; for one day …

    The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

  • 89nǽting — f ( e/ a) blaming, upbraiding …

    Old to modern English dictionary

  • 90abuse — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. misuse, misapply; mistreat, injure, damage; malign, scold, berate, vilify, curse; flay. n. injury, desecration; insult. See disapprobation, badness, deception, impurity, wrong.Ant., praise,… …

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