upbraid

• Terence began to feel that she could not support this behaviour and to wish, in acute discomfort, that Florence would speak to, or even upbraid, her. —  Died in the Wool - Ngaio Marsh - Alleyn 13: 1944
• The women, too, had ceased to scold and upbraid, and would soon go the way of their menfolk. —  SICK HEART RIVER
• Nor think that action you upbraid, so ill; I am not changed, I love my husband still[3]; But love him as he was, when youthful grace, And the first down began to shade his face: That image does my virgin-flames renew, And all your father shines more bright in you Aur. —  The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 05
• Perhaps with the sun, which you upbraid, your hope will set About the fourth hour after noon, the time of the Mozlem's dinner, the Sultan Akhmet Khan was unusually savage and gloomy. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 331, May, 1843
• I write not this any ways to upbraid, or scoff at, or misuse poor men, but rather to condole and pity them by expressing, &c 2260. —  The Anatomy of Melancholy

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