19 Verbs to Use for the Word reprimand

Eunané kept aloof till called, and then approached with an air of sullen reluctance, as if summoned to receive a reprimand rather than a favour.

The directions Damerel gave to the workmen that afternoon were so injudicious, that his master happening to overhear him tell a ditcher to fill up a drain which ought to have been opened, gave him a severe reprimand.

"I have been asked to administer a troop reprimand to a member of the patrol of the Silver Foxes for absenting himself throughout the day from urgent troop duties with no better excuse than a desire to play baseball.

" "I think that unscrupulous Mr. Werner deserves a reprimand," said Louise.

Somebody had tampered with the thing to save Tony a reprimand or worse.

They never liked to have him visit their houses; they looked on him as a spy, and always expected a reprimand, or perhaps a flogging.

And I was feeling pretty bad about it too, because none of the Silver Foxes ever got a troop reprimand.

He was rehearsing in his mind the severe reprimand he intended to bestow upon Rosa.

I remembered the stern reprimand I had received, and his terrible looks; and the recollection gave a kind of tingling sensation, not altogether unallied to enjoyment.

I have spoken to Bartley, and he agrees with me (indeed, he always does), that I cannot lend you an ass's headhe is an authority on such a subjectwithout risking a reprimand from the Lord High Chancellor.

In the following act he suffers a reprimand because, in speaking of the King he talks of him as "Richard," without more ado, but protests that he did it only for brevity's sake.

This enables us in some degree to understand why the equites during the Sicilian war refused to obey the order of the consul Gaius Aurelius Cotta that they should work at the trenches with the legionaries (502), and why Cato, when commander-in-chief of the army in Spain, found himself under the necessity of addressing a severe reprimand to his cavalry.

As soon as Bismarck heard from Werther of the first suggestion, he telegraphed to him a stern reprimand for having listened to demands so prejudicial to the honour of his master, and ordered him, under the pretext of ill health, to depart from Paris and leave a post for which he had shewn himself so ill-suited.

I await my reprimand and sword.

There was a little guard-house, fifty paces distant, just around the corner of the clump of trees, where the police were ready to execute summary justice, and floggings were inflicted on offenders who could not claim citizenship or who had no coin with which to buy the alternative reprimand.

" The chaplain would much rather I had gone to church than have heard such a reprimand.

And if you give any advice, or impart any reprimand, carefully avoid anger; on the contrary, do such acts with moderation and sweetness.

If he has ever worn the shoulder-strap, he has learned the reprimand for its ill adjustment.

His irregular habits procured him constant reprimands in which he gloried; he revenged himself on the authorities by writing epigrams, and by keeping a bear, which he declared should stand for a fellowship.

19 Verbs to Use for the Word  reprimand