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Scolding

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Scolding meaning

An unloving succession of critical remarks, such as those directed by a parent towards a misbehaving child; an earful; dressing down.

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Chief Justice John Roberts ended his final opinion of the Supreme Court’s just-completed term by scolding his liberal colleagues.

Jabbari’s attorneys also presented an audio recording of Majors scolding her as evidence, per The recording was taken about six months before the alleged assault.

Rather than offering unequivocal support and succour to the Israeli people, he began scolding them and stood up in the Dail to warn that any response ‘must be proportionate’.

Sky rolled up Vega, but the ref was scolding Bayley and didn’t make the count.

Some years, I have seen two or three woodcocks, presumably males, flying fairly low to the ground uttering scolding noises as they sorted out their dancing territories.

In a video posted last week, Kelly Rowland, 43, was seen scolding the guard in a heated interaction.

Production Manager Chandler bites on her tongue and refrains from scolding writers for missing deadlines—and pushing her job late into the evenings.

That was not, however, the only scolding he would receive from Merchan this week.

This blanket of gas has caused a runaway greenhouse effect, sending temperatures on the planet to a scolding 460°C.

But this scolding doesn’t appear to fully clear things up for Homer, and that’s when the show itself scrolls a list of 50 different reasons as to why voting for Trump is the wrong decision to make.

Ford scolding some of the province’s 34-regional medical officers of health, after a dip in the number of COVID-19 tests completed on a daily basis.

Fortunately, it was the rear of the house, and my struggles to get back up had only a scolding squirrel as a witness.

He did it a second time and the villagers had the same response, running to help then scolding him for lying.

He’s even gone back to scolding other people for doing the exact same thing he did.

In a rare move, a North Shore Rescue volunteer is publicly scolding an Ontario couple his team helped rescue from the North Shore mountains.

In fact, such scolding is “toxic to public health,” and actually abdicates responsibility from the administration, placing the blame on students when restart plans go awry.

Not even a public scolding.

Paul became frustrated when his mother began scolding him, telling him that it's his job to figure out all of the logistics.

The latter has been criticized, among other reasons, over remarks he’s made during coronavirus press briefings and media appearances, including his March scolding of the news media for in questioning Trump about his response to the pandemic.

Triss helps Ciri in a number of ways, but it's her scolding of Vessimir and Geralt that is perhaps more memorable.