Words and phrases that have a meaning related to scolding: (152 results)
Often used in the same context:
chastising, chiding, admonishing, berating, reprimanding, rebuke, upbraiding, criticizing, castigating, apologizing, reproach, hectoring, harangue, excoriating, goading, coddling, browbeating, sassing, pilloried, razzing, lecturing, mocking, chastize, lambasted, badgering, cussing, dissing, reproving, censuring, prodding, mouthing, cursing, pouting, misbehaving, whining, belittling, fawning, lashing, grumbling, pep talk, griping, carping, condescending, mea culpa, grousing, needling, disciplining, bashing, taunting, denouncing, slighting, blathered, heckling, scowling, irking, ranting, accusing, retorts, praising, groveling, glares, ridicule, shaming, fumed, riled, condemning, scorning, embarrass, humoring, sneering, yapping, ribbing, teasing, tattling, exasperated, recriminating, curtseying, excusing, moralizing, bully, bellyached, remark, lambast, barked, roughhousing, gloating, irritated, pats, henpecking, harrumphing, slaps, vilifying, badmouth, frowning, thrashing, spanking, flogging, tussle, beating, buffeting, reprimands, scuffle, castigation, hammering, licking, quarrelling, reprimand, slap, whack, battering, banging, clatter, brisker, joking, questioning, abashed, absent, absentminded, abstracted, accusatory, acerbic, adenoidal, admonitory, affable, aggrieved, agitated, agonised, airy, alarmed, amused, angriest, angry
Appears in the definition of:
bawling out, castigation, chewing out, dressing down, earful, going-over, harridan, shrew, shrewishness, termagant, upbraiding, virago, wig, wigging
More general:
reprehension, reproof, reproval
Synonyms:
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— Adjectives for scolding: good, severe, little, much, public, terrible, mild, constant, gentle, angry, more, more...
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