“In the past, I have variously been painted as a paragon of the scone and the scolder of errant ways.”

“In pre-Islamic lyrics, while the speaker typically styles himself as a lover, a fighter, and a host of reckless generosity, the scolder is a voice of the communal superego, reminding the poet of his tribal duties.”

“The scolder is another figure from the old poetry.”

“Conscious they deserved a scolding, they sent Josephine down first to mollify.”

“His mother Aurelia was the village scold, brought repeatedly into court for creating turmoil with her tongue.”

“From what I can tell from a number of the scoldings posted, she seemed to raise the ire of many.”

“It seems that in spite of the many scoldings that I had received from him over the years, he really did support my dream from the beginning.”

“These words in quotation marks are taken directly from recent scoldings I've been offered.”

“The High Bailiff shall make a stool and mend the pillory to punish chiders and scolders by Christmas.”

“The querulous critic who scolds it as he would a spoiled child, has not learned the primer of politics.”

“Under the guise of political virtue, it scolds, berates, rebukes, criticizes, and has a high old time doing it.”

“But tackling Spears in public would have made the far right look like scolds or puritans.”