Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault.
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Examples for "scold "
Examples for "scold "
1 As soon as you leave, she'll be free to scold me again.
2 Then the Queen began to scold the little lady, and to say:
3 I wondered why she didn't scold me for being gone so long.
4 Burtson conjured the words as a scold , but they emerged more plealike.
5 Now they have something really to scold us about; but never mind.
1 It was not in Kay's nature to nag ; she let it drop.
2 He put the old nag in a lope down the rocky creek.
3 After a time the trotting nag overtook the trailers of the procession.
4 He put his find in his pocket and whipped up the nag .
5 With a kick he started the old nag and again pulled in.
1 Isn't mother the most interesting ' scolder ' you ever listened to?
2 Mr Graham's transformation from scolder to sycophant was stunning to behold, but not necessarily surprising.
3 Those new houses up on Old Scolder Mountain cut across a sacred hunting ground.
4 All those houses going up on Old Scolder Mountain that was sacred ground for generations.
5 City fellow, late forties, big-shot executive, bought himself a bit of forest around Old Scolder Mountain.
1 I'm here merely in the office of chaperon and common scold .
2 He was made to order for the position of common scold in a country sewing-circle.
3 He had the tongue of a common scold , and he used it with malevolent abandon.
4 I could do nothing, though I talked till I was no better than a common scold .
5 Treason was punished with death, and common scolds were ducked in a pond until they were glad to hold their tongues.
1 He is simply a nagger of men that has had his day.
2 Holly may have personality problems, but she's a very efficient nagger .
3 Holly is a very good nagger , when she puts her mind to it.
4 But Milly was not a nagger , at least not with men.
5 To myself he confided that his host was a nagger .
6 At least I know mother never would have it, and she was no nagger , either.
7 She's worse than a nagger , and home is a place of perdition with that kind in it.
8 Cast in the role of nagger .
9 Let it not be imagined that she scolded, or said small, mean things, or used any of the processes of the ordinary nagger .
10 Owen didn't get along with them, and couldn't have done so, because he's a nagger , and no self-respecting workman will stand for a nagger .
11 Are you a serial nagger or are you prone to the occasional full-blown rant when it comes to the question of keeping the house tidy?
12 Tantrums, Nagger , certificated by the College of Spiritual Athletics.
13 Of these naggers the Swansons were perfect specimens.
14 'A nagger , ' he said, 'a great black chap as big as your father, Archie.'
15 He is simply a nagger of men that has had his day.
16 Holly may have personality problems, but she's a very efficient nagger .
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