Scolding: alternatives and connections

To check, silence, or put down, with reproof; to restrain by expression of disapprobation; to reprehend sharply and summarily; to chide; to reprove;…

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Reproof; censure; blame; disapproval.

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Severe or formal reproof; reprehension, private or public.

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Refutation; confutation; contradiction.

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A covering for the head, consisting of hair interwoven or united by a kind of network, either in imitation of the natural growth, or in abundant and…

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of Wig

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Set right, or made straight; hence, conformable to truth, rectitude, or propriety, or to a just standard; not faulty or imperfect; free from error; a…

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Set right, or made straight; hence, conformable to truth, rectitude, or propriety, or to a just standard; not faulty or imperfect; free from error; a…

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The act of objurgating; reproof.

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