REPRIMAND
Definition:
- [noun] an act or expression of criticism and censure; "he had to take the rebuke with a smile on his face"
Synonyms: rebuke, reproof, reproval, reprehension
- [verb] rebuke formally
Synonyms: censure, criminate
- [verb] censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"
Synonyms: call on the carpet, rebuke, rag, trounce, reproof, lecture, jaw, dress down, call down, scold, chide, berate, bawl out, remonstrate, chew out, chew up, have words, lambaste, lambast
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Related Words:
- animadvert
- chastise, castigate, objurgate, chasten, correct
- tell off, brush down
- riot act
- chiding, scolding, objurgation, tongue-lashing
- what for
- castigation, earful, bawling out, chewing out, upbraiding, going-over, dressing down
- berating, blowing up
- reproach
- lecture, speech, talking to
- correction, chastening, chastisement
- admonition, admonishment, monition
