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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
berate .
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Examples
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Sontag berates herself in these years not only for her falseness and her moral cowardice, but for obtuseness, sexual inadequacies, compulsive seductiveness, failure to live as she believes she ought to be living, boasting, and failure to bathe with sufficient frequency.
Becoming Susan Sontag Eisenberg, Deborah 2008
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As an accomplished Yale Law professor who has fought hard to climb the indomitable Ivy League wall, she is not satisfied until she berates and badgers her children to achieve what she sees as perfection.
Lauren Ashburn: The Real Tiger Mom: Egypt's Amal Sharaf Lauren Ashburn 2011
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As founder and CEO of The Millionaire's Club--the matchmaking service that fixes up high-net-worth clients on dates chronicled on the hit Bravo show Millionaire Matchmaker--she regularly berates her mostly male roster of clients, demanding that they follow her strict instructions in order to find true love.
Millionaire Matchmaker On Eva Longoria's Divorce: 'Karma's A Bitch' Huffington Post 2011
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As founder and CEO of The Millionaire's Club--the matchmaking service that fixes up high-net-worth clients on dates chronicled on the hit Bravo show Millionaire Matchmaker--she regularly berates her mostly male roster of clients, demanding that they follow her strict instructions in order to find true love.
Millionaire Matchmaker On Eva Longoria's Divorce: 'Karma's A Bitch' Huffington Post 2011
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The old soak of a mother whose persistent phone calls drip with thinly disguised venom or emotional blackmail, the fierce, cold, demanding father who ignores his little girl or berates her lack of ambition.
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As an accomplished Yale Law professor who has fought hard to climb the indomitable Ivy League wall, she is not satisfied until she berates and badgers her children to achieve what she sees as perfection.
Lauren Ashburn: The Real Tiger Mom: Egypt's Amal Sharaf Lauren Ashburn 2011
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As she silently berates herself, Eduard arrives on the scene and Oriol gleefully relays the story.
The Sorcerer’s Apprentices Lisa Abend 2011
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And yes, the film descends at the end to a bit of the Devil Wears Prada, as the prime minister berates her cabinet.
Oh Wow! Peggy Noonan 2011
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As an accomplished Yale Law professor who has fought hard to climb the indomitable Ivy League wall, she is not satisfied until she berates and badgers her children to achieve what she sees as perfection.
Lauren Ashburn: The Real Tiger Mom: Egypt's Amal Sharaf Lauren Ashburn 2011
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The old soak of a mother whose persistent phone calls drip with thinly disguised venom or emotional blackmail, the fierce, cold, demanding father who ignores his little girl or berates her lack of ambition.
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