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What (who) is upbraiding - definition
Upbraiding
·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Upbraid.
upbraiding
n.
Reproach, chiding.
upbraid
v. (D; tr.) to upbraid for (they upbraided him for his sloppy work)
Examples of use of upbraiding
1. But neither the public relations offensive nor the private upbraiding has quieted conservatives.
2. And it didn‘t take long for Chancellor Angela Merkel‘s Christian Democrats to begin sharply upbraiding Beck.
3. "Before Andrew had even been offered a drink, Cherie was upbraiding him over some work she wanted done on the building,‘ said an insider.
4. After upbraiding the reporter for his first two attempts at a question, Obama dispatched McCormick‘s third try –– whether there should be a special election to fill Obama‘s Senate seat –– with a no–comment.
5. Tsongas and Ogonowski, whose brother John died when his plane was hijacked and flown into the World Trade Center, cast the race as a referendum on President Bush‘s policies or a public upbraiding of the Democratically controlled Congress.