tongue-lashing in English

noun
1
a loud or severe scolding.
the incensed boss gave him a tongue-lashing
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1. He was given a severe tongue lashing .

2. 3 synonyms for Chiding: objurgation, scolding, tongue-lashing

3. At first he listened to the tongue-lashing in virtual silence.

4. Probably didn't save you from a brutal tongue-lashing, though, huh?

5. On top of a tongue-lashing, he got a beating as well.

6. Mary's mother gave her a tongue-lashing for coming home late.

7. How would his own three sons have reacted to such a tongue-lashing?

8. After a cruel tongue lashing, he threw the girl out of the group.

9. Kwasniewski, the assistant manager, saw him, stalked over, and gave him a five minute tongue-lashing.

10. She gave me such a tongue-lashing that I never touched any cigarette all my life.

11. She gave me such a tongue-lashing that I've never touched any cigarette all my life.

12. Yoshimasa severe tongue-lashing to refuse him, and warned him not to dwell on you.

13. She gave me such a tongue-lashing that I've never touched another cigarette all my life.

14. The tongue-lashing was in response to holiday website Real Holiday Reports which posed the question.

15. Kate told lies again, her mother was really angry with her and gave her a tongue-lashing.

16. As Hall departed for the dressing room, incensed Everton boss Howard Kendall gave him a tongue-lashing from the dugout.

17. It's also an easier option for politicians, who would receive a tongue-lashing for hiking key taxes – income tax, consumption tax and corporate tax.

18. Owning 100 shares of Microsoft makes you, technically speaking, Bill Gates' boss, but that doesn't mean you can call him up and give him a tongue-lashing.

19. She was waiting for me when I left the bathroom. I received the longest, sharpest tongue-lashing of my young life. Grandmother yelled that I was impoliterudethat I had insulted that nice little girl.

20. Chiding: 1 n rebuking a person harshly Synonyms: objurgation , scolding , tongue-lashing Types: wig , wigging British slang for a scolding Type of: rebuke , reprehension , reprimand , reproof , reproval an act or expression of criticism and censure