wagging

• “I don't recall Clinton or Carter getting any finger-wagging from the media when they criticized Bush from 2000 through 2008.”

  Cheney named Conservative of the Year

• “As with the Clintons, lecturing others on their conduct and/or finger wagging is the height of HYPROCRISY … and some kind of elitist (dangerous) DENIAL.”

  Is Virtue What We Buy or What We Sell? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com

• “Elitist finger wagging is as Canadian as the beaver and maple syrup.”

  Oh No! A Scary, Horrible Tiger Is Gonna Eat ME! « Unambiguously Ambidextrous

• “I just wanted to say that all the huffing, puffing and finger-wagging from the left about this clip is really entertaining.”

  Waldo Jaquith - Bush attempts to give German Chancellor a rubdown.

• “Finger-wagging is just something that I do automatically,”

  USATODAY.com

• “The finger-wagging from the American side is almost certain to intensify too.”

  NYT > Home Page

• “In political circles, that's called wagging the dog or changing the channel.”

  Archive 2006-11-01

• “While we've all encountered the overzealous commuter, this sort of finger-wagging which is not to be confused with fingerbanging is also typical of members of the GNCCC, to whom a reckless cyclist is anybody who rides faster than 10mph, or whose bars are not higher than his saddle, or who has the temerity to cycle without essential safety gear such as flat pedals, a tweed blazer, or a baguette.”

  Power Struggle: Sucking, and Sucking it Up

• “Semblably Titus Livius writeth that, in the solemnization time of the Bacchanalian holidays at Rome, both men and women seemed to prophetize and vaticinate, because of an affected kind of wagging of the head, shrugging of the shoulders, and jectigation of the whole body, which they used then most punctually.”

  Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel

• “Bacchanalian holidays at Rome, both men and women seemed to prophetize and vaticinate, because of an affected kind of wagging of the head, shrugging of the shoulders, and jectigation of the whole body, which they used then most punctually.”

  Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3

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