Sentences with scold
scold
S s - If he finds out, he'll scold me. [VERB noun]
- The teacher scolded me for being late.
- Scold is the common term meaning to find fault with or rebuke in angry, irritated, often nagging language [a mother scolds a naughty child]; upbraid implies bitter reproach or censure and usually connotes justification for this [she upbraided me for my carelessness]; berate suggests continuous, heated, even violent reproach, often connoting excessive abuse [the old shrew continued berating them]; revile implies the use of highly abusive and contemptuous language and often connotes deliberate defamation or slander [he reviled his opponent unmercifully]; vituperate suggests even greater violence in the attack [vituperating each other with foul epithets]