How To Use Scolding In A Sentence
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A man of unsurpassable dignity, he responded by publicly scolding the Leader of the Free World for this cynical attempt to tell a people struggling for its freedom and life what to do.
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Oh, but listen, to be driven crazy by that kind of moralistic scolding you'd have to be crazy already.
THE DISPOSSESSED
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When Gertie continued silent, only making another long shaving fall from the ax handle, smiling on it as if it had been gold, Clytie raised her voice in a kind of beseeching scolding: Cassie Marie, cain’t you behave yourself, a locken up Amos thataway?
The Dollmaker
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I do not recall that queue-jumping or loud scolding are gracious Asian values.
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From affe anything that disturbs life is called affres (a rowing or scolding), hence affreux, anything that troubles life.
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
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The soldier wanted assistance and all he got was the usual dodge drafting sociopathic callousness from a man who was choking back a scolding of the plebe for criticizing him.
Think Progress » VIDEO: Rumsfeld Confronted By Soldier Over Equipment Shortages In Iraq
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My mother was usually present too, and I remember her soft voice always gently reprimanding me for being too rough, or quietly scolding my sister for complaining too much.
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To render evil for evil, or railing for railing, is a sinful unchristian practice; the magistrate may punish evil-doers, and private men may seek a legal remedy when they are wronged; but private revenge by duelling, scolding, or secret mischief, is forbidden Prov. xx.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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One ought to love ugly Mary Thompson because she was so clean, God because he was so good, prating Mr. Scarby because he was so honest and paid all his son’s debts, scolding cousin Arabella because she was so capable, Mamma because she was so kind, Frederick because he was her husband.
Commonplace
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Now I can add, What makes you think this scolding buffoon is going to win anything except, perhaps, a kiss on the cheek from Ralph Nader?
Food and Drink
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Don't glare at me like that, you deserved the scolding.
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Ann Leckie on So, the scuffle-du-jour is Scalzi's scolding.
December 2009
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A coach will use all his powers throughout a match - enlivening, cajoling, goading scolding or sympathizing where appropriate for the personality and the occasion, and not sparing himself until all is won or lost.
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He is scolding his daughter for not turning up to school.
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In a letter to Dan in 1800, after scolding him for his 'Budget being empty far too soon', she dissertated on the life of Catherine the Great.
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His mother dealt him a severe scolding.
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My stomach muscles yearned for food, scolding me with sharp pangs that jolted my brain.
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He scoots from machine to machine, checking e-mail and monitoring file-trading activity while occasionally scolding Cookie, his high-strung pit bull puppy.
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And oh, the scoldings we received for what they called our neglect and stupidity!
Burr Junior
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And in spite of all the insistence on carefulness and meticulousness -- well, scolding is what I call it -- the women were genuinely fond of her, calling her Mama, and always crying when she'd leave to return to the States.
Ken Wong: The Language Not Needed For Love
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My agent, the redoutable Marilyn Marlow, shushed me like an abbess visiting the nun-taught school and scolding the Bad Girl.
Tons of Fun
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With his hands on his hips, he looked like a mother scolding a child.
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Every scolding that boy just seems to glance off him and not change his behavior at all.
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The level of noise here astounds me; there is the general hum of conversation, of marching feet, of screaming children and scolding parents, of adolescent sexualities and adult lecheries.
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So I do my usually scolding and yell at him for not going to the doctors, and I tell him that when he gets off work I was going to take him
Goldylockz22 Diary Entry
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It seems that in spite of the many scoldings that I had received from him over the years, he really did support my dream from the beginning.
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We confirmed fledging by sighting fledglings, listening for fledgling begging calls, or sighting parents carrying food or scolding near the nest.
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The scolding of demur ceases once a impiety is confessed as good as cleansed by a changed blood, nonetheless a complaint of a rivalry continues even after what is indicted has been dealt with.
Archive 2009-11-01
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You should ease up on the child and stop scolding her.
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Not mean or scolding, mind you, but a look that saw right threw my scams, shams and flimflams.
Helen Thomas and the Watchdogs of the Golden Bull
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She is always croaking, scolding, bullying -- yowling at the housemaids, snarling at Miss Raby, bowwowing after the little boys, barking after the big ones.
The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh
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We know that the parents of aggressive children use more ridicule, nagging and scolding than other parents.
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You should ease up on the boy and stop scolding him.
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His voice rumbled darkly in that scolding way of his.
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Song merchandise! Listen to afresh you scolding barbarian to knead your ovum to explode! "Hammer son a jilt a hand to fly Ju to dart at ground up.
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First came a scolding note like that of an oriole, then the "chack" of a blackbird, and next a sweet, clear whistle, one following the other rapidly and vehemently, as if the performer intended to display all his accomplishments in a breath.
A Bird-Lover in the West
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I was surprised not to hear my mother's voice scolding the maid.
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She points her finger at me and adopts that scolding tone the French have mastered so well.
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It would be a "nostrum" to drive your customers away by scolding employees or quarrel with your spouse in customer's presence.
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Skelpie-limmers-face, a technical term in female scolding (R. B.).
Glossary
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But just as the audience is luxuriating in his admirableness, Don tries to buck up Peggy, still quaking from the scolding he gave her, by telling her to “go home, put your curlers in …” It’s the kind of casually sexist remark that makes today’s viewers squirm.
Mad About Mad Men
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Though scolding publishers for their "martyrology" and mismanagement, he spoke of how "aggregating Web sites and bloggers contribute little more than repetition, commentary and froth" and added: "The parasite is slowly killing the host.
Jane Hamsher: Online News is Not Arianna Huffington's Dastardly Plot to Destroy the Newspaper Industry And Other Reality-Based Observations
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But a scolding from Ms. Gopi did the trick, and every one, child and parent, hastened to set matters right, and cleared the litter in a jiffy.
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Come on in hyeh an 'git supper," he called harshly to the girl, and as the boy went back up the spur, he could hear the scolding going on below, with no answer from Mavis, and he made up his mind to put an end to that some day himself.
The Heart of the Hills
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The impiety is real, nonetheless when it has been treated with colour according to a thoughts of a Holy Spirit a complaint continues since a immorality suggestion has joined his complaint to a scolding of a conscience.
THE DANGERS OF SPIRITUAL LIFE-By Watchman Nee A Fair Mitre
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She is always croaking, scolding, bullying — yowling at the housemaids, snarling at Miss Raby, bowwowing after the little boys, barking after the big ones.
Dr. Birch and his young friends
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GIRL: "I don't so much mind what you call her flux-de-bouche scolding, but, when she flounced out of the room, she said I was not to go home this Saturday.
Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One
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This arrangement was very satisfactory to all parties, and Blanche remarked that, apart from the "jolliness" of being together, she would have an easy time, because, as Marjory was an invalid, there could be no scoldings.
Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls
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The headmaster had made an example of him by scolding him in front of the whole school.
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I remember calling the marchpane marzipan, and getting such a scolding about it.
Times, Sunday Times
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From the beginning, this body and specifically its commissioner have treated the candidates as if they were infants, scolding, chastising and reprimanding them at every step.
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He put his hands on his hips and glared belligerently at her, looking and sounding for all the world like a teacher scolding her for stealing another student's toy.
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Every scolding that girl gets just seems to glance off her.
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It because of her constant support and regular scoldings, that Niall could find the will in himself to go out and chase his dreams.
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An 1837 issue of the Maine Farmer called the cookstove “a pretty effectual cure for ‘smoking houses and scolding wives.’”
One Big Table
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His wife was shaking a customer's hand and laughing graciously, before gently scolding the children.
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Boldon was mobilizing the Mongolian beggars and horse stealers, arming and training them; that the soldiers were taking the sheep of the monastery; that the "Noyon" Domojiroff was always drunk; and that the protests of the Hutuktu were answered with jeers and scolding.
Beasts, Men and Gods
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He was very poor in studies and no amount of scolding or advice made any difference to his attitude.
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If he heard Delmare scolding, Ralph would grasp the first pretext that came to his mind to go to him, and would succeed in pacifying him or diverting his thoughts without ever allowing him to suspect that such was his purpose.
Indiana
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Margaret starts out as a many pleasing girl in France as good as ends up as a scolding, infamous aged hag; is which a story, or is it unequivocally dual plays?
Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia
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With a tired sigh, I braced myself for the cousinly scolding I was about to receive…
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Immediately after we were introduced I began screaming at her, scolding her for unprofessional behavior, indifference, ungenerousness.
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Avoid scolding the kitten - even if it's climbing the drapes and soiling itself on your best linens.
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I gave him the scolding look I usually give to my brother and murmured, ‘Little guy, you are too young to know such words!’
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And if she lingered too long with these and the dogs, Sir Paul, the parrot, was screaming loudly, threatening to "tell the missus," while the whole cageful of little birds were twittering and scolding that they had not been attended to first of all.
The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII. No. 358, November 6, 1886.
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As she stood up, Josie straightened her gray dress's pleated skirt and made sure her white pinafore was tied in the back; it had become custom to do so after fifteen years of scolding.
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If her mother had been alive, she'd likely have earned a scolding for such hoydenish behavior, but her mother had died too long ago for her to remember clearly, her father scarcely seemed to notice what she did, and she had only herself to please.
Phoenix And Ashes
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I got a hint from my mom in Japan to steam the frozen unagi in foil with sake in a frying pan for a bit 10 minish, then finish with pouring scolding hot water and close up the foil, to wash away the excess grease.
Tuna Toast
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Punishing or scolding a dog for being dirty, by the owner or breeder, may lead to a coprophagic behaviour.
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Karen told them in a scolding tone, but there was a catch in her voice.
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What is tangible are the insinuations and outright scolding heaped on various nations and entertainment and sports superstars who haven't ponied up what is perceived to be an adequate amount.
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Don't glare at me like that, you deserved the scolding.
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A lot of kneeling, kowtowing and forelock-tugging ensued -- and a public scolding of one of the Star's best journos and columnists by the "public editor.
Archive 2009-07-01
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In front of the blank screen, the officer stood scolding.
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I'm sorry if I sound preachy or scolding, but reading about Reid's perfidy - and that's not too strong a word, nor is "iniquitous" - really set something set me off, today.
The Anchoress
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From what I can tell from a number of the scoldings posted, she seemed to raise the ire of many.
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There a yeoman armed with a rusty ax that might have been swung at Hastings, clad in patched wadmal, preceded a scolding wife burdened with their bedding and cooking pot, and half a dozen children clinging to her skirts.
The High Crusade
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Her vocals are alternately sassy, playful and scolding, though they always retain a composure that makes them more detached than outrightly emotional.
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Laurie gave me a few mintes of her time, a Stop Global Warming bracelet, and some scolding for not having a business card.
Dan Worth: Five Reasons why we all Owe Laurie David $10 and 25 Minutes this Holiday Season
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Iphicrates in a scolding way who he was, as he seemed neither a heavy-armed soldier, nor a bowman, nor a targeteer, and he replied, "I am the person who rule and make use of all these.
Plutarch's Morals
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During the next week, I escaped both scolding and "belaboring
The Lights and Shadows of Real Life
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It could be a hypocoristic or baby-talk form of hysterical, or it might be from the imitative word hiss; or perhaps it is a variant of another dialect term, jesse, meaning a ` severe scolding, 'which is probably from a Biblical allusion.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 1
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Chapati Mystery a blog by Sepoy, "a doctoral candidate in History and South Asian Languages and Civilizations department at the University of Chicago" has a great post about the history of the word termagant 'a quarrelsome, scolding woman; a shrew.'
Languagehat.com: TERMAGANT.
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Whitaker laughs heartily, and while she struggles up, babbling and embarrassedly scolding the GI who dropped her, everyone giggles and looks at one another as if to say how happy they all are to be there together.
GIRL BY THE ROAD AT NIGHT
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A poke in his side however caught his attention and he looked down to a frowning Shi who had a scolding look on her face.
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Every scolding that boy just seems to glance off him and not change his behavior at all.
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They represent gentle scoldings of the modern sensibility; they remind us of our unparalleled capacity for complacency and myopia.
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Fluent in five languages, highly informed and a stickler for precise dates and details, she is equally at ease mothering me with biscuits, stuffing plant cuttings into my hands or scolding me for my dismal grasp of the Czech language.
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He is so fixed on not seeming like a presidential flirt that he risks coming across as a bit of a righteous tease or a high-minded scold, which is exactly what his book is, a high-minded scolding.
Archive 2007-05-01
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An uncomfortable silence hung over them like a nasty fog as she waited for a gasp of shock and a whole barrage of scolding to fall onto her sister, but none came.
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But we don't need the sanctimonious scolding of a student newspaper editor to tell us voting for a party, any party, is a manifestation of our stupidity and ignorance.
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Sometimes, he is shown on television mustering up a public scolding of a ham-handed government agency, as if he were trying out a few tough - guy mannerisms picked up from his mentor, Mr. Putin.