UPBRAIDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does upbraiding mean? 

• UPBRAIDING (noun)
  The noun UPBRAIDING has 1 sense:

1. a severe scolding

  Familiarity information: UPBRAIDING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UPBRAIDING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A severe scolding

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

bawling out; castigation; chewing out; dressing down; earful; going-over; upbraiding

Hypernyms ("upbraiding" is a kind of...):

rebuke; reprehension; reprimand; reproof; reproval (an act or expression of criticism and censure)

Derivation:

upbraid (express criticism towards)

 Context examples 

Nor did she waste time in coming to the point, upbraiding him sorrowfully for what he had done.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

You will not thank me for detaining you from the bewitching converse of that young lady, whose bright eyes are also upbraiding me.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Without one overt act of hostility, one upbraiding word, he contrived to impress me momently with the conviction that I was put beyond the pale of his favour.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

These were vile discoveries; but except for the treachery of concealment, I should have made them no subject of reproach to my wife, even when I found her nature wholly alien to mine, her tastes obnoxious to me, her cast of mind common, low, narrow, and singularly incapable of being led to anything higher, expanded to anything larger—when I found that I could not pass a single evening, nor even a single hour of the day with her in comfort; that kindly conversation could not be sustained between us, because whatever topic I started, immediately received from her a turn at once coarse and trite, perverse and imbecile—when I perceived that I should never have a quiet or settled household, because no servant would bear the continued outbreaks of her violent and unreasonable temper, or the vexations of her absurd, contradictory, exacting orders—even then I restrained myself: I eschewed upbraiding, I curtailed remonstrance; I tried to devour my repentance and disgust in secret; I repressed the deep antipathy I felt.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)