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Meanings of sting rebuke in English

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Usage of sting rebuke in English
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The BBC Trust delivers a stinging rebuke on the Russell Brand scandal.
The Guardian
2
The consequence was that he received a stinging rebuke from his elder brother.
The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti
3
She dashes away before I can recover from her stinging rebuke.
Altered
4
I'll turn you across my knee and administer a stinging rebuke.
The Range Dwellers
5
It was a stinging rebuke and an open challenge.
The Memoirs of Cleopatra
6
They administer stinging rebukes that leave the adversary writhing.
The Spenders: A Tale of the Third Generation
7
He lost his self-possession and forgot that he deserved a stinging rebuke for his insincerity.
Opening a Chestnut Burr
8
Unconsciously Miss Martell had given her a stinging rebuke.
From Jest to Earnest
9
A less stinging rebuke would have served your purpose.
My Brilliant Career
10
The lines themselves were enough: not so much a stinging rebuke but a wholesale character assassination.
The Guardian
11
Slowly did she take up the money while words of stinging rebuke were on her tongue.
Woman's Trials; Or, Tales and Sketches from the Life around Us
12
Major-general Dundas, was so dilatory as to evoke from the good-natured general-in-chief a most stinging rebuke.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. / From the Acc...
13
But what a stinging rebuke it was, what an arraignment of French character and French royalty!
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 2
14
His younger sister Jodie has just issued a stinging rebuke to his "labour of love."
The Irish Times
15
He was angry at the stinging rebuke.
Constance Dunlap
16
But I was so young and inexperienced, and I had been goaded almost to madness by her stinging rebukes.
Ernest Linwood; or, The Inner Life of the Author