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- verb Present participle of
berate . - noun A
scolding .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a severe rebuke
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Examples
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If he runs, I hope his opponent exposes the voters to an continuous loop of Baldwin berating his poor daughter, so that they can truly see what a mean egotistical creep Alec Baldwin really is.
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Not long after the rage-tastic clip was posted online, a shady character by the name of "RevoLucian" posted "Bale Out — RevoLucian's Christian Bale Remix" on YouTube, a techno-ripping, demonic dance party in which Bale's berating is repeated ad nauseam under pictures of the actor and random f-bomb interjections from Barbra Streisand.
You Can Now Dance To The Sound Of Christian Bale’s Fury » MTV Movies Blog 2009
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I was driving to work this morning and on our local "Obama Bashing" AM radio (yes, the same station that broadcasts 3 hours of Rush and 3 hours of Hannity, followed by 3 hours of the screaming-nut, Mark Levin) a woman called in berating the President's talk to the school kids today.
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After he projected last year that there could be sea level rises of up to a metre by the end of the century, he received aggressive phone calls berating him for "stuffing up their superannuation investments".
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After he projected last year that there could be sea level rises of up to a metre by the end of the century, he received aggressive phone calls berating him for "stuffing up their superannuation investments".
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Naturally, I was no longer home, but the next day I received a followup call berating me for “breaking” the appointment.
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But any rate, I was on the radio; I get a half a dozen calls berating me about Professor
Passion for Truth 2001
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"They got very unpleasant phone calls berating them for his having performed this marriage."
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But Michaele wanted to talk about how Whoopi had been "berating" her backstage on "The View."
Michaele Salahi and Whoopi Goldberg tell their sides of the story 2010
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Was that aggressive interviewing by Matthews, or was he kind of berating Senator Burris?
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