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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 take to task In A Sentence
- From a Japanese standpoint, she would take to task the gaijin ladies in Japan who refused to comply with traditions with a condescending attitude, at the same time chastising Japanese obatarian who despaired of the big-nosed foreigners.
- I would feminise global politics and take to task those countries which refuse to co-operate with treaties such as the Kyoto Agreement.
- Less defensibly, one could further argue that Lost in the Meritocracy is itself a thoroughly practiced imitation of a certain language of rebellion, nonconformity, and protest meant to take to task the easy target of the postmodern academy. Anis Shivani: Does the Ivy League Turn You Into a Moron? Walter Kirn Critiques Princeton in "Lost in the Meritocracy"
- Apparently, the politically correct could safely take to task the state slavery of white-controlled apartheid, but one must zip the lip in the presence of what is viewed as black-on-black repression.