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Sentence Examples He was very poor in studies and no amount of scolding or advice made any difference to his attitude. But a scolding from Ms. Gopi did the trick, and every one, child and parent, hastened to set matters right, and cleared the litter in a jiffy. I'm not sure why it is that liberals have become gloomy, scolding, peevish and puritanical, but so they have. A poke in his side however caught his attention and he looked down to a frowning Shi who had a scolding look on her face. My stomach muscles yearned for food, scolding me with sharp pangs that jolted my brain. Punishing or scolding a dog for being dirty, by the owner or breeder, may lead to a coprophagic behaviour. Immediately after we were introduced I began screaming at her, scolding her for unprofessional behavior, indifference, ungenerousness. She points her finger at me and adopts that scolding tone the French have mastered so well. We confirmed fledging by sighting fledglings, listening for fledgling begging calls, or sighting parents carrying food or scolding near the nest. She stops by the corner store to pick up a few things and gives a much-deserved scolding to a young kid caught shoplifting. His wife was shaking a customer's hand and laughing graciously, before gently scolding the children. I do not recall that queue-jumping or loud scolding are gracious Asian values. In a letter to Dan in 1800, after scolding him for his 'Budget being empty far too soon', she dissertated on the life of Catherine the Great. The mildness and gentleness of the February sun is compared to a mother's scolding. However, many kinds of violence were evident, including shouting, scolding, insults and physical violence. But scolding aside Emmanuel was such a good friend that his criticism would not serve to distance us but rather bring us closer together. When anybody starts in scolding, you observe, that bird always get furious and takes the first hand in the jawing match. Sometimes several squirrels join together to taunt a predator with a chorus of scolding accompanied by agitated twitches of the tail. My eardrums still rang from the scolding when I continued with the experiments, though more cautiously in the garage. For example, twice I mentally took my father's side when my mother was scolding him. Show More Sentences Our American cousins in the North having had their waiting, whining and scolding time, have now come to the crowing, swelling and bullying time. My grandfather started scolding me and telling me that I was a lot lighter than he was and I would not fall in. He scoots from machine to machine, checking e-mail and monitoring file-trading activity while occasionally scolding Cookie, his high-strung pit bull puppy. He put his hands on his hips and glared belligerently at her, looking and sounding for all the world like a teacher scolding her for stealing another student's toy. The affianced, in turn, are not children in need of a scolding, but are both 29-years-old. She picks up the boy and starts whispering to him, her voice losing its scolding tone, dissolving into singsong. We also feel that the elders made us feel comfortable asking questions without belittling us and scolding us for not knowing the answer. Her vocals are alternately sassy, playful and scolding, though they always retain a composure that makes them more detached than outrightly emotional. Unperturbed by their lack of stature, they're more than happy to give you a scolding if you do something they don't approve of. I was surprised not to hear my mother's voice scolding the maid. With his hands on his hips, he looked like a mother scolding a child. My mother was usually present too, and I remember her soft voice always gently reprimanding me for being too rough, or quietly scolding my sister for complaining too much. Improved regulations and more effective, better-paid regulators are urgently needed. Mr Kaufman's book is not all fretting, urging and scolding. Because I had never experienced a priest scolding others in church before, I felt that I wanted to leave and I went close to the door. Mr Verheugen, I find it intolerable how you absolve your own failure by scolding producers and consumers. Try to avoid punishing or scolding children during this time as this may add to the suffering they are going through. Lecturing and scolding will likely be resented, but impassioned private pleas can help engender positive change. So far in the States, he has eschewed the roaring, pumping, and scolding so as not to antagonize his new teammates and opponents. To be sure, there was some scolding of the Republican Party, but very little. Yes, they engaged in a great deal of the lecturing and scolding recommended by Charles Murray. Show More Sentences But we don't need the sanctimonious scolding of a student newspaper editor to tell us voting for a party, any party, is a manifestation of our stupidity and ignorance. An uncomfortable silence hung over them like a nasty fog as she waited for a gasp of shock and a whole barrage of scolding to fall onto her sister, but none came. No speechifying, no debates, no scolding of American provincialism, just a welcome view of what the rest of the world is reading. Karen told them in a scolding tone, but there was a catch in her voice. From the beginning, this body and specifically its commissioner have treated the candidates as if they were infants, scolding, chastising and reprimanding them at every step. But to see just how crazy this scolding is, we need some background. To criticise him for doing so would be like scolding a dog for barking. In addition to their singing, robins make a variety of calls, from the well-known alarm cheep and disturbed tuktuk to a scolding chirp accompanied by tail jerking. All at once the artist evokes the history of his family, the memory of the workers and the memory of the residential area bred from a scolding and familiar capitalism. While we were scolding him, we were also proud of him. This precisionist criticism is, however, typical, and the eighteenth-century archives are full of similar scolding. A child may incorrectly react to being scolded by laughing and jumping, for example, because the scolding is exciting and focuses attention on him or her. Is scolding and browbeating an acceptable way to exhort? Sender's intention: to help her to write correctly by scolding a little. There is no point in scolding your dog for bad behaviour only after the act, for he will then no longer be able to associate anything with that reprimand and will not know what he has done wrong. Women were disciplined in kirk sessions and civil courts for stereotypical offences including scolding and prostitution, which were seen as deviant, rather than criminal. When a friend asked Socrates, how he could bear the scolding of his wife Xantippe? he retorted, and asked him, how he could bear the gaggling of his geese? Panicking and tearful, another of ricer bends over his bleeding colleague in the snow, scolding the offenders who have continued their relentless march. Examples from Classical Literature So, instead of scolding him about the jardiniere, I assumed that it was an accident. Their life is one round of lying and gossiping, of scolding and backbiting. Mollie paced up and down like a bedlamite, sobbing and scolding to herself, and quite broken down with one day's imprisonment. She jawed him for making an exhibition of himself, scolding as though he were a ten-year-old. What he says sounds at first like scolding, and then like a solemn curse or conjuration. Conscious they deserved a scolding, they sent Josephine down first to mollify. I felt impatient and decided to give her a scolding for being so neglectful. While greeting him I heard a great clamour of scolding babblers emanating from a neem tree hard by. Xantippe, the wife of Socrates, noted for her violent temper and scolding propensities. Her scolding, however, seemed to have more effect on Khalid than my reasoning. He heard the mother beating and scolding, and nabla crying and pleading within. This ducking stool was intended for the special benefit of vixens and scolding wives. The owl is probably a painter's skit of the screeching, scolding old hussy! For a while he heard Mr. and Mrs. redwing scolding sharply, and by this he knew that Reddy Fox was still about. And now we know for all time that these countless scolding and minatory voices were not mere angry units, but that they were in. As I couldn't, I held my tongue, and bore the scolding till the old gentleman collared me. Between him and the lieutenant, scolding and near to losing his mind with rage, there was felt a subtle fellowship and equality. He took a good scolding about clodding Sid, and did not seem to mind it in the least. Jurgis stood in the doorway and listened to her scolding, half drowning out the horrible moans and screams of Ona. Hy, the Scotch tunes are just like a scolding, nagging woman. Show More Sentences An elderly man was at their heels scolding and directing in a creaky, sardonic voice. Bennet deigned not to make any reply, but, unable to contain herself, began scolding one of her daughters. What were they shouting, scolding, and making such a pother about? He made the house lively by his activity, his imperiousness, his scolding, and his good-nature. Probably Abie wanted to give Tim a scolding about something. She went down and led them out of the sun, scolding the quadroon for not being more attentive. If you have the pleasure of scolding, I surely can have that of crying. The master then went from easel to easel, scolding, flattering, jesting, and making, as usual, his jests more dreaded than his reprimands. The king-birds have come, and the corn-planter, the scolding bob-o-link. Isn't mother ugly and cross and scolding to me all the time? Listen to him scolding the foreman of the fire company, will you? Suddenly, I realized why Grandma was a saver of oddities, why she went around snapping lights off and scolding us gently for being wasteful. There shall be no flurry, no scolding, no discomfort, but a neat house, a cheerful wife, and a good dinner. There was nothing the young gentleman would have liked better, but elephants could not have dragged him back after the scolding he had received. More raps with the stick, more scolding, and a recommencement. With us complaining, scolding and faultfinding, was indulged in by all. But they were so glad to get away from their ugly cave and their mother's scolding that they begged me to go on and on, as far as Russian Peter's house. But being in a great hurry to resume scolding the man in the purple shirt, who was waiting for it in the entry, and seeming to hear nothing but the word clam, Mrs. In a few moments it became clear that Madame Haupt was engaged in descending the ladder, scolding and exhorting again, while the ladder creaked in protest. If I've got to have a scolding, I want it quick, and get it over. Show More Sentences I was going to give him a scolding, but Sandy came flying in at that moment, wild with terror, and so choked with sobs that for a minute she could not get her voice. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of scolding? Words that rhyme with scolding What is the plural of scolding? What is the adverb for scolding? What is the noun for scolding? Translations for scolding Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words scolded scold scolari Scofield scoffs scofflaws scoldingly scoldings scolds scolecite scolex scolices 8-letter Words Starting With s sc sco scol scold scoldi scoldin