Words similar to scolding

Example sentences for: scolding

How can you use “scolding” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

But to criticize Dunlap for his cruelty is akin to scolding a lion for killing an antelope.
But, if you forgive me for tooting my horn a little, you may remember a little piece I wrote for the New Republic in 1988, called "Paristroika," laying out the uncanny similarities between the situation of the then-Soviet Union and the situation of France on the eve of its 1789 revolution (the pompous Sovietologist Jerry Hough wrote a condescending letter to the editor, scolding me for my ignorance in failing to realize that the Russians would never let things get to the point where Ukraine or Lithuania might secede.
(Dorothy scolding the Wizard, after he admitted he was a fraud.)
chidyng: scolding
It could be a hypocoristic or baby-talk form of hysterical , or it might be from the imitative word hiss ; or perhaps it is a variant of another dialect term, jesse , meaning a `severe scolding,' which is probably from a Biblical allusion.