What is "berated"

Usage examples of "berated".

He berated himself for the growing paranoia he sensed as a result of his house arrest, but he needed this information too badly to wish to be denied access.

Then he berated himself for borrowing trouble where it might not exist.

Or perhaps it was common knowledge through the Guild that Lanzecki had berated a new Singer.

She ought to have checked, and she berated herself for such an oversight.

Svenda had berated them fiercely, while Tarvi and Sallah had merely carried on with the surveying.

She wouldn't take such a risk now, though it was not due to the memory of the rage in the eyes of L'mal, who had been Weyrleader then, when he had berated her for recklessness.

They let me sleep myself out, for which I berated the good lady when she fed me a huge breakfast at dawn, but she merely replied that the other holds knew I was coming and that was certainly better than wondering if they'd been totally forgotten.

Robinton mentally berated himself that the unused title came out so awkwardly.

He berated himself for being so naive, as unseeingly obtuse as any dragonrider for assuming that the Weyrs were inviolable and a Hatching Ground untouchable.

The queen sometimes scolded Menolly or perhaps berated the fire lizard Menolly was holding.

Piemur added in such a casual fashion that Menolly berated herself for imagining things.

As K’van had anticipated, he was soundly berated by Lessa for involving himself in a holder dispute.

He could imagine the set of her tensed jaw as she berated him and the slender column of her throat, from the lobe of her ear to a pale shoulder and the soft roundness of her breasts as she stood boldly before him and answered his objections, point for point.

The halls resounded with the enraged bellows of one Karr Hilliard who fumed at the fates, cursed the climes, berated the snow for being snow, the ice for being ice, the wind for being wind, and roundly vented his agitated spleen with a fine eye for equality on any who came within earshot and many who simply misjudged the range.

Her grating, whining voice berated her sons as they labored to build the fire higher and secure enough comfort for her and thereby obtain peace for themselves.