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Example sentences for: scold

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At the top of his short hate list resides popular scold William Bennett.
Some have been retained by becoming standard, often because there is no other convenient or adequately descriptive standard term for the same thing, like Charley horse for a leg cramp; others are genuinely standard words but were applied in a slang context, like chassis for a woman's body; many are not frequent enough to have bored their users sufficiently to drop them, like chew out for scold; some might have been dropped by those who are in, only to be picked up by the squares to make themselves appear to be in, like cheeba for (a) cannabis (cigarette).
She never lectures us; she is never a scold or an "uplifter"; she never exalts some mythical Humanity over the day-to-day struggles of ordinary human beings, who are all, of course, making the same mistakes over and over again.
It is jacketed with the sober brown paper that covered The Book of Virtues , and it seems a calculating attempt by Bennett to secure his franchise as America's scold in chief.
"When he was late and his mother stood waiting in the doorway, she always seemed to swell, filling the doorframe, to obstruct and delay him, so that she could bulk against his approaching face and scold him.