Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.
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Examples for "scold"
Examples for "scold"
1As soon as you leave, she'll be free to scold me again.
2Then the Queen began to scold the little lady, and to say:
3I wondered why she didn't scold me for being gone so long.
4Burtson conjured the words as a scold, but they emerged more plealike.
5Now they have something really to scold us about; but never mind.
1It was not in Kay's nature to nag; she let it drop.
2He put the old nag in a lope down the rocky creek.
3After a time the trotting nag overtook the trailers of the procession.
4He put his find in his pocket and whipped up the nag.
5With a kick he started the old nag and again pulled in.
1He is simply a nagger of men that has had his day.
2Holly may have personality problems, but she's a very efficient nagger.
3Holly is a very good nagger, when she puts her mind to it.
4But Milly was not a nagger, at least not with men.
5To myself he confided that his host was a nagger.
1Isn't mother the most interesting 'scolder' you ever listened to?
2Mr Graham's transformation from scolder to sycophant was stunning to behold, but not necessarily surprising.
3Those new houses up on Old Scolder Mountain cut across a sacred hunting ground.
4All those houses going up on Old Scolder Mountain that was sacred ground for generations.
5City fellow, late forties, big-shot executive, bought himself a bit of forest around Old Scolder Mountain.
1I'm here merely in the office of chaperon and common scold.
2He was made to order for the position of common scold in a country sewing-circle.
3He had the tongue of a common scold, and he used it with malevolent abandon.
4I could do nothing, though I talked till I was no better than a common scold.
5Treason was punished with death, and common scolds were ducked in a pond until they were glad to hold their tongues.
6"You're getting to be nothing better than a common scold, Ern," returned Roger with a laugh.
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