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Example sentences for: scold

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After an hour, I thought that Never Been Kissed might be the most fun teenpic since Clueless , but ultimately the movie takes too many shortcuts even on its own dumb, formulaic terms, and it can't make up its mind whether it wants to pander to teen-age fantasies of good looks and popularity or to scold teen-agers for being so shallow.
Many scold Ross for publishing her memoir while Shawn's 92-year-old widow is still alive.
A pair of articles catalog Mexico's drug corruption--especially its crooked drug czar--and scold the Clinton administration for ignoring it.
Apparently, I protested loudly enough for my aunt to take note because she tried to console and scold me in that double tone that proverbs have.
"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.