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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
upbraid .
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Examples
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This happens again when Lombardi upbraids Taylor again and Taylor stands up for his right to be represented by an agent.
Michael Giltz: Theater Reviews: "Lombardi" Scores A Field Goal; "La Bete" Better For Actors Michael Giltz 2010
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This happens again when Lombardi upbraids Taylor again and Taylor stands up for his right to be represented by an agent.
Michael Giltz: Theater Reviews: Lombardi Scores a Field Goal; La Bete Better for Actors Michael Giltz 2010
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Palin has hired the two young founders of a fan site that zealously defends her honor and upbraids her critics.
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This happens again when Lombardi upbraids Taylor again and Taylor stands up for his right to be represented by an agent.
Michael Giltz: Theater Reviews: "Lombardi" Scores A Field Goal; "La Bete" Better For Actors Michael Giltz 2010
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In his book with Jean Baudrillard, “Intellectual Impostures”, SoCal upbraids Irigaray for her suggestion that a feminist mathematics, working in a more intuitive sense with less emphasis on male concepts like “proof”, would revolutionise the world and solve hitherto insoluble problems.
Venus Williams… 2010
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The seaman is lost but a passenger named Dorety upbraids Cullen and threatens to swear out a warrant for the captain's arrest in San Francisco and charge Cullen with murder.
“Day had broken cold and gray, exceedingly cold and gray, . . . .” 2008
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Alexander upbraids me for saying it is too soon to raise questions about the zone and the Promise Academy.
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Obama upbraids the politics of Black Power for lacking a practical strategy.
Radical-In-Chief Stanley Kurtz 2010
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Obama upbraids the politics of Black Power for lacking a practical strategy.
Radical-In-Chief Stanley Kurtz 2010
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When she comes in, looking like a cross between Jackie Kennedy and a New York fashion model, he upbraids her, treating her like a child for contacting Margaret.
William Bradley: It's November 22, 1963 On Mad Men: HuffPost Review 2009
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