Reprimand
['reprɪmɑːnd] or ['rɛprɪmænd]
Definition
(n.) Severe or formal reproof; reprehension, private or public.
(n.) To reprove severely; to reprehend; to chide for a fault; to consure formally.
(n.) To reprove publicly and officially, in execution of a sentence; as, the court ordered him to be reprimanded.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Reprove, censure, rebuke, reprehend, reproach, chide, scold, upbraid, blame, admonish, find fault with, BLOW UP.
n. Reproof, censure, rebuke, reproach, blame, admonition, animadversion, reprobation, reproval.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See REPREHEND]
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Definition
n. a severe reproof.—v.t. to chide: to reprove severely: to administer reproof publicly or officially.
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Examples
- Usually her welcome was a reprimand or a threat. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Yes, indeed, Edmund, added her ladyship, who had been thoroughly awakened by Mrs. Norris's sharp reprimand to Fanny; I was out above an hour. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- I did not need to be guided to the well-known room, to which I had so often been summoned for chastisement or reprimand in former days. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The girls deserve reprimand. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The letter was not a reprimand in direct terms, but it was evidently as much felt as though it had been one. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Detection and a reprimand came in due course, but were not taken very seriously. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But he will be brought home by-and-by, before night: and you'll just look after him, will you, and give him a reprimand, you know? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The operator had been reprimanded very severely and ordered to be relieved. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- She severely reprimanded the gardener on account of his dog. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- And Alfred appeared from the inner salon, where he was talking to Madame Beck, receiving the blended felicitations and reprimands of that lady. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- She got through her lessons as well as she could, and managed to escape reprimands by being a model of deportment. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
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