Words similar to berates

Example sentences for: berates

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But the moment she berates the "privilege" of those who couldn't afford to make a down payment on her carriage house, or invokes the "greed" of those making 125 percent of the mean per capita income, I'm with Hick, who said to Eleanor during a White House dinner, "God damn it--none of us ought to be wearing velvet dinner gowns these days."
Ashcroft regularly berates the Republican Congress for having "cut and run" rather than having tackled tough moral issues.
The real war in Kosovo is featured inside, as it is in Newsweek . Time berates NATO for its self-congratulatory and ill-timed birthday celebrations.
An editorial berates the British government's proposal to eliminate trial by jury for several crimes including theft and weapons possession.
A Washington Post editorial berates Elizabeth Dole for her ditzy stand on drug policy.