dressing down in English
the secretary received a public dressing-down
Use "dressing down" in a sentence
1. The man was dressing down a horse.
2. 8 I gave him a good dressing-down.
3. 6 I got a dressing-down from the boss.
4. 17 The tobacco companies got a severe dressing-down.
5. Mother gave me a dressing down for playing truant.
6. 7 The naughty child got a good dressing-down.
7. 1 The tobacco companies got a severe dressing-down.
8. 5 I gave him a good dressing-down for it.
9. 2 She gave me a dressing-down for getting there late.
10. On March 20 I called in Dobrynin for a tough dressing down.
11. More and more people are dressing down for the office these days.
12. His work was bad, so the boss gave him a dressing down.
13. His father gave him a good dressing down for wasting so much time.
14. His mother gave him a real dressing down for wasting so much time.
15. 10 When he falls in my way, I'll give him a severe dressing-down.
16. The butler gave the maid a dressing down for not cleaning the silver properly.
17. If one of those publishers screws up, I give them dressing down they deserve.
18. 9 He failed his maths examination and got a dressing-down from his father.
19. She always made a point of dressing down on her first date with a man.
20. You should give him a serious dressing down to let him know that this is wrong.
21. 4 Pippin was given a public dressing-down,[www.Sentencedict.com] and ordered to precede his father to Francia.
22. 3 The dressing-down comes as a 60 percent rise in complaints against banks was revealed yesterday.
23. However, nowhere else has dressing down caused so much angst and confusion as in the routine workday.
24. Castigation noun reprimand, criticism, blast, put-down, condemnation, censure, dressing down (informal), chastisement, bawling-out (informal), excoriation Helen's merciless Castigation of her staff in public Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition