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censure severely or angrily
The deputy ragged the Prime Minister
The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car
The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup
How To Use have words In A Sentence
- Well, we have words for people like that: nitpickers, fusspots, pettifoggers.
- I didn't have words to describe the giddy sense of bigness, of far awayness, that overwhelmed me. She Sank Into the Sand
- A fellow driver chose to have words with him and criticised him for weaving about on the track in order to balk those who try to overtake.
- Yet the mention of sacrifice before brought to mind a story that intrigues me and seems to start to say something deeper than I have words to express.
- I mean, you'd expect prole (PH) England to have words for different types of rain: drizzle, the har -- the fog, the mist that -- that drifts up the Lincolnshire coastline, etc., etc. So yes. A Back-Story to The Man Who Loved China A Coincidence Most Curious and Telling
- Doctor Jim could not tolerate what he called dishonesty, and from time to time they would have words and Frank would be gone for months. Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness
- They must invent new terms that are themselves unsatisfactory, since no language can have words for what is fundamentally ineffable, undescribable, and beyond possible comparison with objects or phenomena of the empirical realm.
