Upbraiding
[ʌp'bredɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Upbraid
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Examples
- Sir Percival merely answered by upbraiding his friend with having unjustifiably slighted his wishes and neglected his interests all through the day. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- You will not thank me for detaining you from the bewitching converse of that young lady, whose bright eyes are also upbraiding me. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Hubbub followed; high upbraiding, and sobs rather loud than deep or real. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- A few weeks afterward I received a letter from one of my London friends, who was a doubting Thomas, upbraiding me for coming so soon under the spell of the 'Yankee inventor. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Truce with thine upbraidings, Rebecca, said the Templar; I have my own cause of grief, and brook not that thy reproaches should add to it. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
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