Show one's unhappiness or critical attitude

Usage examples of scolding.

By right, as an old friend who had found the airman in the forest, Seryonka was walking solemnly in front of the stretcher, laboriously pulling his feet, encased in the huge felt boots left him by his father, out of the snow and sternly scolding the other white-toothed, grimy-faced, fantastically ragged boys.

She longed to bury her face and hands in their fur, feel their raspy tongues on her cheeks and fingersor flippers as the case might behear their thundering purrs or even their disdainful scolding.

Laura could almost hear Grandpa Busby scolding her for eating such garbage for breakfast.

It is all so fast yet his brain has time to process a number of sensations - the touch of her velvet humming in his fingertips, the scolding bump her hip gave him, his indignation at her clunky shoes and the people who stripped the staircase of its banister, all precisely layered in his mind.

She watched Cor win a martial arts competition once this way, which cost her a scolding from the matron for returning late.

I put my hands on my hips like any common fishwife ready to deliver a round scolding.

Once when h was scolding a frail incumbent who found it impossible t raise money for the church debt the big woman came ragin out and scourged him for his unkindness to the meek old man who had more holiness in his big toe than His Lordship in his whole lardy body.

Shaming him into Project Lariat with her scolding over the stock market.

Two types of birds predominated, the mynas, who strutted about gesturing awkwardly and making unharmonious, scolding squawks, and the less noticeable doves, moving more slowly, almost politely, some of them seeming to bob up and down as they fanned out their tail feathers and cooed in melodious voices.

Scolding, she had long ago realised, was a useless waste of time and energy where Comus was concerned, but this evening she unloosed her tongue for the mere relief that it gave to her surcharged feelings.

As she walked slowly downstairs, she could hear a sharp, anxious voice inside her head scolding her, telling her that there were things she had to do, people she had to see, but she ignored it, blotting it out.

The tones of her voice and the expression of her face were so exactly like those of a scolding, vixenish woman that she caused many a hearty laugh by her tirades.

He would have to replace them before Wana arrived because she might ask questions about them loudly enough for their mother to overhear and begin scolding him.

His mother began scolding him as soon as she saw them moving away from the netting, but by that time Danal and Cawn were shouting questions at Wana and himself so loudly that he was able to pretend not to hear her.

In the distance she could hear Xenia scolding Maurice as another normal day began at No.