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Scolding synonyms
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admonition
An admonishing, or warning to correct some fault
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  1. An admonishing, or warning to correct some fault
  2. A judge’s advice, cautionary statement, direction, reprimand, or warning to a jury, lawyer, party, spectator, or witness regarding any matter that arises during a judicial proceeding. A judge’s advice, cautionary statement, direction, reprimand, or warning to a jury, lawyer, party, spectator, or witness regarding any matter that arises during a judicial proceeding.
  3. Mild, kind, yet earnest reproof.
rebuke
A sharp reprimand
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  1. A sharp reprimand
  2. An expression of strong disapproval.
reprimand
A severe, formal or official reproof; reprehension, rebuke, private or public.
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  1. A severe, formal or official reproof; reprehension, rebuke, private or public.
  2. A severe, formal, or official rebuke or censure.
  3. A severe or formal rebuke, esp. by a person in authority
reproach
One that stands as a rebuke or blame:
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  1. One that stands as a rebuke or blame:
  2. (Obs.) An object of blame, censure, scorn, etc.
  3. A blaming or reproving; rebuke
reproof
The act, an instance, or an expression of reproving; a rebuke.
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  1. The act, an instance, or an expression of reproving; a rebuke.
  2. The act of reproving or something said in reproving; rebuke; censure
rap
A rap song or recording
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  1. A rap song or recording
  2. A kind of popular music in which rhymed verses are chanted or declaimed to the accompaniment of forceful and repetitive rhythms, played usually on drums or synthesizers
  3. A composition or performance of such music.
Find another word for scolding. In this page you can discover 8 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for scolding, like: praise, admonishment, admonition, rebuke, reprimand, reproach, reproof and rap.

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  • She continued to take notes, as if Dean's scolding had fallen on deaf ears.

  • The classics had not refined his taste, for he was amused by setting the wandering scholars, who swarmed to his court, to abuse one another in the indescribably filthy Latin scolding matches which were then the fashion.

  • "Now Alex," Katie began in a scolding tone, "You can't keep throwing your past in Carmen's face.

  • The strange dependants to whom he had given shelter, and to whom, in spite of their faults, he was strongly attached' by habit, dropped off one by one; and, in the silence of his home, he regretted even the noise of their scolding matches.

  • With the violent party in a majority, refusing the jurisdiction of the state, insisting on the establishment of Presbyterianism in England, excommunicating and scolding, Scotland would be as much disturbed as in the days of Andrew Melville.

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