scolding

scold | American Dictionary

scold
verb[ T ]
us/skoʊld/
to criticize angrily someone who has done something wrong:
His mother scolded him for breaking the window.

scolding

noun[ C/U ]us/ˈskoʊl·dɪŋ/
[ C ]I got a scolding for coming home late.

Examples of scold

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This holds good for scolds (predominantly female) as well as for exclusively or predominantly male offences.
Employees were aware that a longer time spent trying to understand a directive would result in being scolded for not having fulfilled the directive promptly.
He praised the energetic and scolded the slack; and competition for honour proved as effective as compulsion.
In addition to three presentments as a scold and one for hedgebreaking, she was co-defendant with her husband in three or more trespass suits.
In the second decade of the sixteenth century, male scolds begin to appear, albeit in very small numbers.
Instead of dutifully keeping his mouth shut when instructed or scolded, he answered back with unbecoming impunity.
We don't scold, but give advice instead and tell them what they should do.
But since most were long-term residents, it seems that being presented as a scold was something that happened only once to most of these individuals.
This will be followed by a more detailed examination of the presentments for scolding and closely related offences in the same period.
Three other women were presented simply as scolds.
Prosecutions of scolds took place from the late fourteenth century onwards, and hardly amounted to an epidemic in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
There is no surviving record of anyone being presented as a scold between 1533 and 1563, when two women and a man were charged.
There were other individuals with comparable or longer histories of misdemeanours who were neither accused of scolding nor had spouses who were.
Of the 23, 17 were presented only once for scolding, as far as we can tell.
The only "hospital bureaucracy" he faced was the nursing staff, who constantly scolded him for working too hard.
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