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- noun Plural form of
berating .
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Examples
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Tempers flare and erupt in angry beratings, delivered military-style.
Out of the Fire, Into the Frying Pan Judy Joo 2009
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Never mind tales of private beratings, I wanted some public display of ire: "Keep your filthy hands off my cigars you cheating cheapskate."
"In the end, voters will decide what's off-limits, but I can't imagine that the public will reward the politics of personal destruction." Ann Althouse 2007
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I, too, endured beatings, beratings, and iceballs to the ear, but I figured those were to be expected.
kite and key party 2007
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Never mind tales of private beratings, I wanted some public display of ire ...
"In the end, voters will decide what's off-limits, but I can't imagine that the public will reward the politics of personal destruction." Ann Althouse 2007
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He lost faith in his saints, and privately indulged in blasphemous beratings and reproaches of them, which would have filled the Señora with terror, had she known that such blasphemies were being committed under her roof.
Ramona 1921
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To the desperate girl's agony of rebellion against the horror of fate Lady Mallowe's taunts and beratings were devilish.
T. Tembarom 1913
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He lost faith in his saints, and privately indulged in blasphemous beratings and reproaches of them, which would have filled the Senora with terror, had she known that such blasphemies were being committed under her roof.
Ramona Helen Hunt Jackson 1857
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Consumed by guilt Andy takes her constant beratings quietly.
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Consumed by guilt Andy takes her constant beratings quietly.
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Holocaust is not his only set of beratings and 'evidences.'
The Moderate Voice 2009
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