berating

Speech parts

1. berating - Noun

2. berating - Verb

Meaning

of Berate

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

blowing up criticism abuse lecture sermon abusive censure reproach rebuke reprimand admonition tirade invective scolding sarcasm
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Antonyms

cleaning honoring eyewash enhancing bootlicking positive feedback
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Hypernyms

rebuke reprimand reproof reprehension reproval

Anagrams

bitrange

Examples

Doctor Sarah didn't start out by attacking and berating everybody who called her radio show," Mona says. "She used to have a little time slot and a little audience, and she seemed to really care about helping people." Chuck Palahniuk

Hemingway hated me. I outsell him and he was steamed. One day he wrote a story for Bluebook berating me. So I'm going on a big TV show in Chicago and I don't get it, that's sour grapes... I mean if you can't say something nice about someone why say anything at all? Mickey Spillane

She tried to remind herself that beauty was only skin deep, but that didn't offer any helpful excuses when she was berating herself for never knowing what to say to people. There was nothing more depressing than an ugly girl with no personality. Julia Quinn

he deserved the berating that the coach gave him Source: Internet

A man brandishing a bible crashed his car moments after berating worshipers in a mosque prompting the bomb squad to examine his van. Source: Internet

And yet the depression found Smith without a job or viable occupation, unable to eke out a living as a poet, with girlfriends berating him for his lack of ambition. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Berat berate beratement beratingly beration berattle