Sentence example with the word 'upbraid'

upbraid

admonish, bring to book, censure, chide, give a dressing-down, lecture, rebuke, reproach, scold, spank, take to task, tongue-lash

Definition v. express criticism towards

Last update: January 24, 2017

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Azharuddin was upbraided for bad captaincy.   [verb]

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The Israelites, terrified by the approach of the Egyptians, upbraid Moses, who promises them deliverance by the hand of Yahweh (xiv.   [verb]

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What they upbraid the bourgeoisie with is not so much that it creates a proletariat, as that it creates a revolutionary proletariat.   [verb]

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You did ill to upbraid him.   [verb]

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He refused, and, on my importunity, indignantly upbraided me with the favours he had already conferred.   [verb]

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Proud and erect, the inner eye turned toward the light, Francisco Ferrer needed no lying priests to give him courage, nor did he upbraid a phantom for forsaking him.   [verb]

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To serve or to upbraid, whether he could not tell: but scorned to beg her favour.   [verb]

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I would rather you had come and upbraided me with vehemence.   [verb]

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She looked at him and, screwing up her eyes sternly, continued to upbraid the general who had won from her.   [verb]

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When the officer had gone away, Denisov, who did not himself know what Rostov's relations with the Polish girl might be, began to upbraid him for his quickness of temper, and Rostov replied:   [Please select]

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He would not upbraid a prisoner.   [Please select]

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