upbraidingly

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adverb

So as to upbraid; scoldingly.

Scrabble 21

Meanings

adverbupbraidingly (comparative more upbraidingly, superlative most upbraidingly)

comparative more upbraidingly · superlative most upbraidingly

  1. So as to upbraid; scoldingly.

    He hears the horses--they have broken their tethers--he can hear them whinnying, upbraidingly, far off.

    1898, Henry Francis Keenan, The Iron Game
    1 more example

    And then--there lay the heart of the worry, proving him only too likely a graceless jealous middle-age curmudgeon, a senile sentimentalist, thus did he upbraidingly mock himself--were there not signs of Damaris developing into a rather thorough paced coquette?

    1919, Lucas Malet, Deadham Hard

Origin

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