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Tongue-lashing   /təŋ-lˈæʃɪŋ/   Listen
Tongue-lashing

noun
1.
Rebuking a person harshly.  Synonyms: chiding, objurgation, scolding.






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"Tongue-lashing" Quotes from Famous Books



... money. There were among my speculating customers many with the even-tenored sporting instinct. These were bearing their losses with philosophy—none of them had swooped on me. Of the perhaps three hundred who had come to ease their anguish by tongue-lashing me, every one was a bad loser and was mad through and through—those who had lost a few hundred dollars were as infuriated as those whom my misleading tip had cost thousands and tens of thousands; those whom I had helped ...
— The Deluge • David Graham Phillips



Words linked to "Tongue-lashing" :   reprimand, reproval, wigging, objurgation, wig, rebuke, reprehension, reproof, scolding



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