Usage of "tongue-lashing"

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Rebuking a person harshly.

Synonyms

Examples for "scolding"

She no longer heard Georg Riegg, still scolding, calling for the watch. 
 The hangman's daughter 

Gervaise listened with a faint smile; she had no idea of scolding. 
 L'Assommoir 

He bound his handkerchief over the wound, scolding away in the meantime. 
 Men, Women, and Boats 

The Commandante gave them a scolding and we went out in triumph. 
 Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis 

I stand and cross my arms, waiting for the scolding to start. 
 Divergent 

I am now rebuked for chiding the fears of my little maid. 
 Annette, the Metis Spy: A Heroine of the N.W. Rebellion 

Shooting Bon a chiding look, Emma took the potato from Lemmy's hand. 
 The devil wears plaid 

I walked quickly, chiding myself for the rising panic in my chest. 
 The Demon Lover 

But this time, there was no head-shake, no anger, no chiding grin. 
 Independent.ie 

Now Marguerite was chiding herself for her doubts and for her fears. 
 The Elusive Pimpernel 

The invincibly taciturn woman is so rare as to have escaped objurgation. 
 Hints for Lovers 

Seeing which his father quickly regained the paper, but continued his objurgation. 
 A First Family of Tasajara 

He has a horror of its wordy wars, its flood of objurgation. 
 The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 / A Magazine... 

But the irate old man finished his objurgation with the words: 
 A Knight of the Nineteenth Century 

Our chair coolies were in a constant state of objurgation in clearing a way. 
 New Forces in Old China: An Inevitable Awakening 

Usage of tongue-lashing in anglès

After he gave me a tongue-lashing he left for home with Barbara. 
 Escape 

But this verdict also came with a firm tongue-lashing from the judiciary. 
 The South African 

But I may say I'm not especially anxious for a tongue-lashing to-night. 
 The Grafters 

How would his own three sons have reacted to such a tongue-lashing? 
 The Godfather 

Edd gave them a tongue-lashing and thrashing at one and the same time. 
 Tales of lonely trails 

I fear I will have a mighty tongue-lashing when I return. 
 Sovereign 

By their grins, they guessed the young man was in for a tongue-lashing. 
 Bones of the Dragon 

Zondiwe tries to help and gets a tongue-lashing for her trouble. 
 The South African 

The tongue-lashing had been just what they needed, as Betty very well knew. 
 The Outdoor Girls in the Saddle; Or, The Girl Miner of Gold Run 

Let the kid have it with a tongue-lashing of your own. 
 Have a new kid by friday: how to change your child's attitude, b... 

Or that the guards wouldn't get the tongue-lashing of their lives later tonight. 
 Throne of Glass 

You have come to get a right nice little woman's tongue-lashing. 
 Debate on Woman Suffrage in the Senate of the United States, / 2... 

There, they received a tongue-lashing behind the closed doors of the chief justice's chambers. 
 Reuters 

I gave him a tongue-lashing such as he has never before received from me. 
 The diary of mattie spenser 

Lucy gets a tongue-lashing for trying to help a friend. 
 The South African 

Most of them are in for crimes that deserve no more than a tongue-lashing. 
 The power of one 

Frequent collocations

Translations for tongue-lashing

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Tongue-lashing through the time

Meanings of tongue-lashing in anglès