Usually means: Scolding or criticizing very harshly.
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  1. upbraiding: Merriam-Webster
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  12. upbraiding: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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▸ adjective:  Reproachful; chiding; censorious.
▸ noun:  An instance of severe criticism or rebuke.

Similar:
dressing down, castigation, going-over, earful, bawling out, chewing out, exprobrative, objurgatory, reproachable, rated, more...

Types:
scolding, reprimand, chastisement, berating, castigation, more...

Adjectives:
bitter, severe, such, mutual, sweet, self, passionate, vehement, dignified, unjust, querulous

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Similar:
dressing down, castigation, going-over, earful, bawling out, chewing out, exprobrative, objurgatory, reproachable, rated, more...

Types:
scolding, reprimand, chastisement, berating, castigation, more...

Adjectives:
bitter, severe, such, mutual, sweet, self, passionate, vehement, dignified, unjust, querulous



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