What is "scolds"

Usage examples of "scolds".

Beyond the beat come other, fainter cries: the shrieks of lunatics, the shouts and scolds of nurses.

He looked her over critically, and said: “Just as well he ain’t, for he’d be bound to give you one of his scolds for dressing-up as fine as fivepence!

I don’t care for mere scolds, but she said such things—and Lucasta too—and all in front of Corinna—and Corinna told the others—” Her voice failed on a sob, and she was quite unable to continue.

I don’t know what upset her most: the thundering scolds she got from him, or the discovery that he had grown very fat.

Oh, he read me one of his scolds, but he told me to come to him if I found myself at the end of my rope!

Think of all the wicked things you must do that nobody sees and nobody scolds you for.