How To Use Upbraiding In A Sentence
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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.
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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.
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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)
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Much to her credit, no amount of upbraiding or name-calling has moved her an iota.
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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
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Above all the noise, Margaret could be heard upbraiding her husband - ‘It's your own fault, Ben, you should have picked one of mine!’
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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
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They glanced at each other in a kind of upbraiding fashion.
A Little Girl in Old Salem
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Elissa scolded him, calling him a coward, and upbraiding him for not showing backbone.
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Her mother was far more critical than her father, constantly upbraiding her youngest daughter for the intensity and sensitivity she showed.
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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 ...
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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
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Clara looked momentarily disconcerted but wasn't about to concede defeat after upbraiding Nicholas a moment before.
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His wife set about upbraiding him for neglecting the children.
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It is not unusual to see a small boy upbraiding his own mother for some act that shows a lack of modesty.
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Her manager is forever pressurising her into pushing banking products at customers and upbraiding her if she doesn't reach the expected quota.
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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
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I can understand a brief discussion on the moral upbraiding of having multiple kids while unemployed.
Archive 2009-06-01
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Much to her credit, no amount of upbraiding or name-calling has moved her an iota.
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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
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And she spoke with more real virulence than that kind of upbraiding generally exhibits.
Uncle Silas
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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.
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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
