Definition of "upbraiding" []

• Present participle of upbraid. (verb)
• Reproachful; chiding; censorious. (adjective)
• An instance of severe criticism or rebuke. (noun)

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• "And she spoke with more real virulence than that kind of upbraiding generally exhibits."
• "They glanced at each other in a kind of upbraiding fashion."
• "Epiplexisy (Gf.) a Figure in Rhetorick, which, by an elegant kind of upbraiding, endeavours to convince."