22 adjectives to describe scoldings

I gave him a sharp scolding, for it was kicking up its hind legs like mad; but he only looked up in my face and laughed.

They came up as demurely as if nothing had happened, and seemed rather surprised to be received with a hearty scolding, instead of being patted and caressed as usual.

On a certain Saturday she gave him a most tremendous scolding, which so affected the spirits of the good man that it influenced his decision in regard to the selection of the subject for his sermon the next day.

The best way was to scold them, for a good dog feels a severe scolding as much as a whipping.

I almost wish Sniatynski had given me a downright scolding, instead of larding his letter with sentences like this "In spite of all your good qualities it will come to this, that you will always be a cause of suffering and anxiety to those who love you."

As he wrote to the Editor: "give me any kind of work, writing for you, reviewing, manuscript or proof reading, I shall do anything, I shall undertake any job, even to taking editorial scoldings in all good nature, only give me work."

" "As if I minded that little feathery scolding!

" "The colonel is out shooting, as you know, and won't be back till tea-time," said Mrs. Hewel, becoming more and more flurried under this torrent of lively scolding.

" "But do you imagine," said Patty roguishly, "that such a mild scolding as that is going to do a hardened reprobate like me any good?"

so I suppose there is hardly an intelligent person in the English-speaking communities who has not thought of some possible remedyfrom the naive scoldings of Mr. Roosevelt and the more stolid of the periodicals to sane and intelligible legislative projects.

They even affected indifference to parental scoldings, and lingered about the enchanting spot until the shadows fell eastward and the day was old.

His wrath had not cooled, but somehow his confidence in himself seemed slowly to evaporate, as it came time for him to administer the scoldingthe scolding which he had rehearsed over and over in his mind.

Michelangelo immediately gave him such a thorough scolding that Cardiere plucked up courage, and set forth on foot for Careggi, a Medicean villa some three miles distant from the city.

Bismarck's feelings as a gentleman were offended by this useless scolding; it seemed, moreover, dangerous.

" A little delicate management of this sort will often have more influence over young persons than the most vehement scolding, or the most watchful and jealous precautions.

She was not slow in availing herself of the opportunity afforded of giving Souwanas and Kennedy a vigorous scolding for nearly breaking the hearts of her precious darlings, by killing in their presence some of the birds whose play they had often watched for hours together.

He returned only at the insistent call of hunger, to bear with stoical calm an amount of violent scolding that was more in proportion to his size than anything else that had ever before fallen to his lot in the Happy Village.

One evening when he and Mr. Burke and Mr. Langton were in company together, and the admirable scolding of Timon of Athens was mentioned, this instance of Johnson's was quoted, and thought to have at least equal excellence.

Summoned by voluble scolding, her husband appeared, and placidly labored at the creaking sweep.

Dinah herself, now a well-grown damsel, black, but comely, who, during Cornelia's maladministration, had been suffered to follow too much the devices and desires of her own heart, setting at naught alike the entreaties and reproofs of her mistress and her mother's angry scoldings,even Dinah submitted without a murmur to Tira's wholesome authority, and abandoned all her evil courses.

The latter seemed to be in the worst of tempers, and he kept up a continual scolding, which the other listened to with a gloomy face.

She very much disliked scoldings, and had not now a word to say against the old body who would frighten the horses.

22 adjectives to describe  scoldings