scolded

Meaning

of Scold

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

accused blamed punished condemned underdressed chew up fumed railed wigged

Antonyms

celebrated sanctioned unpunished

Phrases with the word

scolded roundly

Examples

No one was ever scolded out of their sins. William Cowper

Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice. Lillian Hellman

When scolded for masturbating in public, he said "I wish it were as easy to banish hunger by rubbing my belly." Diogenes of Sinope

Annabeth sat up and glared at her ankle. "You HAD to break," she scolded it. The ankle did not reply. Rick Riordan

Really, I scolded myself, you should have known that you'd end up in a stone dungeon with no facilities. That's how these things always end up, isn't it? Lilith Saintcrow

The devil seduced Eve in Italian. Eve mislead Adam in Bohemian. The Lord scolded them both in German. Then the angel drove them from paradise in Hungarian. Polish Proverb