How To Use Upbraid In A Sentence

  • In England those who cannot maintain this space are upbraided with “Keep your distance!” Bloodlust
  • ‘And shall I entitle the wretch to upbraid me with his generosity, and his pity; and perhaps to reproach me for having been capable of forgiving crimes of such a nature? Clarissa Harlowe
  • Elissa scolded him, calling him a coward, and upbraiding him for not showing backbone.
  • A gentleman upbraids his servant: is it true, he asks him, that you have had the audacity to spread around the idea that your master is stingy?
  • Its bright black eyes were alert and watching, ready to upbraid or condemn or love, same as any capable adult thing. WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
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  • Mapuhi relieved his feelings by sending her reeling from a box on the ear; while Tefara and Nauri burst into tears and continued to upbraid him after the manner of women. THE HOUSE OF MAPUHI
  • She upbraids her mother and brother for caring more about ‘table-cloths and china’ than ‘her father, who was lying there in a sort of living death’.
  • The poor girl had not spirit sufficient to upbraid her friend; nor did it suit her now to acerbate an enemy. The Way We Live Now
  • The prime minister was upbraided for a governing style which made collective, cabinet responsibility almost impossible: ministers never saw key papers, relying instead on oral briefings.
  • Her mother was far more critical than her father, constantly upbraiding her youngest daughter for the intensity and sensitivity she showed.
  • Wilful impenitency is the great damning sin of multitudes that enjoy the gospel, and which (more than any other) sinners will be upbraided with to eternity. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
  • When one of her fellow guests turned in his chair to look at her, she angrily broke off from the point she was making, to upbraid him.
  • The girls spin on; a kind of forewoman, Mary, upbraids Senta with idling and staring at the picture and dreaming away her life ” for the girl is quite open about her sympathy with the accursed seafaring man. Richard Wagner
  • Professor Galbraith upbraided me yesterday for my suggestion that our sojourns to Geneva be shortened to six weeks.
  • And the newspaper is also right to gently upbraid him for the first article this week in his normally excellent notebook, which really is a piece of tripe.
  • He permitted his eyes for a moment to fasten upon her, to admire her, and to enjoy triumphantly her confusion in silence: 'Ah, beauteous tyrant!' he then cried; 'if this instant were less inappreciable, in what language could I upbraid thy unexampled abuse of power? Camilla
  • Epiplexisy (Gf.) a Figure in Rhetorick, which, by an elegant kind of upbraiding, endeavours to convince. Glossographia Anglicana Nova: Or, A Dictionary, Interpreting Such Hard Words of Whatever ...
  • Messrs. Schoen and Rowan say that The Wall Street Journal editorial board, in 2003, "upbraided" Jack Kemp for his business relationship with the Chávez government. Abuse of Power
  • In newspaper articles she consistently upbraided those in authority who overstepped their limits.
  • OTTAWA-KANDAHAR - Prime Minister Stephen Harper publicly upbraided his foreign affairs minister Monday for creating a "misimpression" that the governor of Kandahar should be fired for corruption. Harper Raps Bernier's Knuckles In Public
  • I roll in and she fails to introduce me, so I take her aside and upbraid her for this transgression. Get Laid or Die Trying
  • But why should I have to, in this day and age, upbraid a woman who looked to be a reasonably intelligent and otherwise respectable member of the country's upper middle class? Global Voices in English » Trinidad & Tobago: Are We Really Independent?
  • When comedian and cable political-show host Jon Stewart beat up on cable business-show host Jim Cramer recently, some cheered it as a righteous upbraiding of the news media for sleeping - or cheerleading - while Wall Street ran off with the nation's piggybank. News industry's depression has spillover implications
  • Above all the noise, Margaret could be heard upbraiding her husband - ‘It's your own fault, Ben, you should have picked one of mine!’
  • It was the spring before the World Cup in Spain and a man from Madrid sitting behind him joined me in upbraiding him for his behaviour, but my father was having none of it.
  • Isn't that what she so upbraided the current president for proposing in Iraq when he was the candidate and talked about the troop drawdown? Alaska's soon-to-be governor praises Palin
  • See what a generous benefactor our Lord Jesus is, above all benefactors; he gives liberally, and is so far from upbraiding us with the frequency and largeness of his gifts that he rather upbraids us with the seldomness and straitness of our requests: "You have asked nothing in comparison of what you want, and what I have to give, and have promised to give. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
  • Much to her credit, no amount of upbraiding or name-calling has moved her an iota.
  • Italian media have lionized Gregorio De Falco, the coast guard commander who can be heard upbraiding Mr. Schettino over the phone. Italy Probes Captain's Call With Boss
  • When Hand tries to back out, go home, save some of the cash, Will upbraids him.
  • The truth is that the Republican rivals really can't upbraid Romney for his business record because it would put them at odds with the philosophy of the Republican party. New Hampshire Republican debate - live: Mitt Romney versus the rest
  • _ 1359) Orestes and Pylades are upbraided for 'stealing from the land its images and priestesses' ([Greek: kleptontes ek gês xoana kai thuêpolous]), though there was only one image and one priestess. Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion"
  • Under the figure of an unfaithful wife, God upbraids Jerusalem with her ingratitude and manifold disloyalties: but promiseth mercy by a new covenant. The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2
  • It's a little ungrateful for Mr. Edwards to now upbraid the man who did so much to make the Senator's own fortune and political career possible.
  • Both parties are deservedly upbraided for their reticence on exactly how to cut the fiscal deficit.
  • Two Pinochetistas immediately board the bus and furiously upbraid and threaten her.
  • Katie Nicholl As Ms. Wade has it, royal bride-to-be Kate Middleton upbraided a rival columnist—Katie Nicholl of the Mail on Sunday—at a tea party with reporters the day Ms. Middleton's engagement to Prince William was announced in November. Full Court Press: Britain's Newshounds Wage a Wedding Battle Royal
  • Nevertheless, I was impressed by the rambler on one of Prince Charles's Highland estates who was upbraided by a royal protection officer for trespassing. 2010 – a Mourinho of a year, a special one | Kevin McKenna
  • Politicians and economists report that European counterparts who formerly criticised them for being too hard on the euro now upbraid them for being too soft. The eurozone: it's a pyrrhic victory for the eurosceptics | Nick Cohen
  • Anyway, the family values hate groups are apparently now going to run ads "upbraiding" Senators who didn't vote to limit debate on the Gay Bashing Constitutional Amendment last week (i.e., 07/23/2004
  • I was once upbraided by a musician who heard me talking too enthusiastically about the possibilities provided by new instruments.
  • In newspaper articles she consistently upbraided those in authority who overstepped their limits.
  • Turning to the bewildered old man, he continues: "to be called a knave, and upbraided in this manner by your daughter, when I have befriended you all these days! An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith
  • They glanced at each other in a kind of upbraiding fashion. A Little Girl in Old Salem
  • A leading Australian novelist once upbraided me about the poet's indecent use of metaphor, as though he felt that my mob was stealing a march on him, poor soul.
  • Hooper and Cockes were upbraided for having “a negative attitude and divisive tendencies.” Flight Risk
  • Her manager is forever pressurising her into pushing banking products at customers and upbraiding her if she doesn't reach the expected quota.
  • O'Donnell lambasted the cartoon, calling it "a racist obscenity" and upbraiding the "hateful vision" of Lash and his application of "animalistic," large-eared features to President Obama. 'OBAMA NATION' artist decries MSNBC rant about 'racist obscenity' cartoon
  • And then, that same candidate will put out an ad making perfectly generic critiques of his or her opponent -- which the media will hysterically then upbraid. Remember, Candidates: The Media Won't Let You Keep Your "Civility Pledge"
  • I can understand a brief discussion on the moral upbraiding of having multiple kids while unemployed. Archive 2009-06-01
  • Much to her credit, no amount of upbraiding or name-calling has moved her an iota.
  • Another unsuspecting dunderhead is ‘upbraided for making a grammatical mistake in a metaphorical tale about a dead bird.’
  • Philautus, upbraiding his treacherous friend Euphues for robbing him of his lady's love, delivers himself of the following speech: "Although hitherto Euphues I have shrined thee in my heart for a trusty friend, I will shunne thee hereafter as a trothless foe, and although I cannot see in thee less wit than I was wont, yet do I find less honesty. John Lyly
  • The captain upbraid his men for falling asleep.
  • And she spoke with more real virulence than that kind of upbraiding generally exhibits. Uncle Silas
  • Morrison also upbraided the Liberty consulting group hired by the commission to determine when FairPoint was ready for the network transfer, called cutover, saying many of the current problems should have been foreseen. Undefined
  • Let critic folk the poet's use of vulgar slang upbraid, Songs and Other Verse
  • Its bright black eyes were alert and watching, ready to upbraid or condemn or love, same as any capable adult thing. WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
  • In newspaper articles she consistently upbraided those in authority who overstepped their limits.
  • Invariably, he would publicly upbraid those members of the clergy he deemed to be unconverted.
  • 'And shall I entitle the wretch to upbraid me with his generosity, and his pity; and perhaps to reproach me for having been capable of forgiving crimes of such a nature? Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7
  • Even though he was not the producer of Nine, some of the council members began to upbraid him about the fact that there were no African-Americans in the cast of Nine. Howard Kissel: The War Between Dream Girls and Nine
  • He went to classes smartly dressed in a shirt and tie, and upbraided his fellow pupils for not being suitably attired.
  • Oh she played ignorant when I upbraided her, but I suspect she knew exactly what she was doing.
  • Back on land where we could sink safely into the snow up to our ankles and giggle at our own bravery, there was an angry woman who didn't speak English, upbraiding us in a way that needed no translation.
  • Lord Allen may have been wrong in his head, or ill-advised, or foolishly over-zealous, but his ill-tempered upbraiding of the Dublin Corporation for what he called their treasonable extravagance in thus honouring Swift, whom he deemed an enemy of the King, was the act of a fool. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish
  • Clara looked momentarily disconcerted but wasn't about to concede defeat after upbraiding Nicholas a moment before.
  • But she was anxious by nature and was forever upbraiding colleagues (mostly me) for turning up late or for writing 250 words on a story when she had asked for 200.
  • In her grief, Alison upbraids Henry: ‘There is none but me to know one thing - that you were a traitor to him in your heart’.
  • Beck -- who just last week somberly upbraided Newsweek for running a sexist picture of Palin -- doesn't want to hear her "yapping" as "I'm not in the kitchen. AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
  • For this he was upbraided in the Senate by Fabius Maximus, and called the corrupter of the Roman soldiery. The Prince
  • God told David, by the mouth of Nathan, when he upbraided him with his ingratitude for the blessings he had given him, and said, "And I gave thee thy master's house, and _thy master's wives_ into thy bosom. Slavery Ordained of God
  • The premise is simple; an uptight German bureaucrat upbraids his wife for allowing her frillies to fall off at a parade for the King.
  • His mother summoned him, upbraided him, wept and prayed.
  • The poem's thought about the aetiology of war, its main theme, is based on Christ's reproach of the Pharisees, who had upbraided the disciples for not washing their hands before eating.
  • The seaman is lost but a passenger named Dorety upbraids Cullen and threatens to swear out a warrant for the captain's arrest in San Francisco and charge Cullen with murder. “Day had broken cold and gray, exceedingly cold and gray, . . . .”
  • So when the nest-owner would have gone out after his wont, he drew near the Cat; whereupon she seized him and taking him in her claws, began to bite him and shake him and take him in her mouth and lift him up and cast him down and run after him and cranch him and torture him. 63 The Mouse cried out for help, beseeching deliverance of Allah and began to upbraid the Cat, saying, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Then they shall receive no more reproach of famine, shall never be again upbraided with that, nor shall it ever be said that God is a Master that keeps his servants to short allowance. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
  • Its bright black eyes were alert and watching, ready to upbraid or condemn or love, same as any capable adult thing. WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
  • His wife set about upbraiding him for neglecting the children.
  • It is not unusual to see a small boy upbraiding his own mother for some act that shows a lack of modesty.
  • I fled from the scene as fast as I could but nevertheless I could hear my father's voice as he continued to upbraid me until I was out of earshot.
  • Someone in the audience stood to ask a question, and, identifying himself as an historian, "upbraided" Mr Kenney for his stance on war resisters in Canada, and "was warmly applauded". Additional note on recent jason kenney picket in toronto
  • And you know that Congress has upbraided them, and that their businesses are bankrupt, and their debts are many, and that their social currency is now nil. So over this: D.C. "Housewives" recap (Reunion, pt. 2, Oct. 21)
  • He upbraided the narrowness of American analytic philosophy and also scolded the academic New Left for its abstruseness and inwardness ( "The UC Berkeley English department is now fully multicultural, but what have they done lately for East Oakland?"). John Seery: Richard Rorty: Ironically Upbeat in Dark Times
  • Thus some complain that it is a gloomy religion; others go to the opposite extreme and accuse it of pointing to a state of perpetual chocolate cream; yet again it is attacked on grounds of effeminancy, it is upbraided as being fond of a sickly sentimentalism. Gilbert Keith Chesterton
  • The girls spin on; a kind of forewoman, Mary, upbraids Senta with idling and staring at the picture and dreaming away her life -- for the girl is quite open about her sympathy with the accursed seafaring man. Richard Wagner Composer of Operas
  • Today my editor upbraided me for the superfluous ornateness of my prose, opining that my headline, ‘Indigenous demoiselle is triumphant in natatorial tourney’ might more fittingly have been rendered, ‘Local girl wins swimming contest.’
  • The "men" is emphatic; men of sense; in antithesis to "vain boasting." mockest -- upbraidest God by complaints, "shall no man make thee ashamed? Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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