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scolding

[skohl-ding]

noun

  1. the action of a person who scolds; a rebuke; reproof.

    I got a scolding for being late again.



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Other 51Թ Forms

  • unscolding adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of scolding1

late Middle English word dating back to 1425–75; scold, -ing 1
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The online response to the art was painfully scolding and prudish.

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He also wasn’t shy about scolding dining companions who committed such sins as buttering their bread or not eating all their vegetables.

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A couple of shots did that in the seventh, but Donovan's use of the head saw him on the end of another scolding and perhaps fortunate not to lose another point.

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As Rebecca Traister wrote in New York this week, since the election there's been an almost-gleeful flood of scolding from centrist pundits, telling the "woke" left to tone it down and change who we are.

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No apologies were made to those who didn't need 50 murders to get to the obvious truth, but hey, at least the scolding stopped.

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