Crossword-Solution: BERATING 8 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Berating p. pr. & vb. n. of Berate

We have 7 clues for the answer “BERATING”

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Scold's activity 1 answer
Scolder's action 1 answer
Chewing out 2 answers
Scolding harshly 3 answers
Dressing down 8 answers
Scolding 49 answers
Admonition 54 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTEEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BERATING (5)

When he heard his mother spoken of harshly or when he overheard her berating his father, he was frightened and ran away to hide.
Winesburg, Ohio Sherwood Anderson 1996
Through the swinging door into the steaming kitchen Hiram saw a huge black woman waddling about the range, and heard her husky voice berating Sister for not moving faster.
Hiram The Young Farmer Burbank L. Todd 1999
When he had arranged for their care, we set out to rejoin the King, and before going far, overtook his Majesty, who had stopped on the Chalons road, and was surrounded by a throng of fugitives, whom he was berating in German so energetic as to remind me forcibly of the "Dutch" swearing that I used to hear in my boyhood in Ohio.
The Memoirs of General P. H. Sheridan, Vol. 2 General Philip Henry Sheridan 2004
Howells wrote protesting against the European travel and berating him for his silence: “I never was in Berlin and don't know any family hotel there.
The Letters Of Mark Twain, Complete Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 2016
WHEN morning came, and the priests were awakened by the singing of birds and the chattering of monkeys (as if in derision at their sloth), they no sooner discovered their great loss than they set to berating each another right soundly; not because they cared a whit for what evil the fellow could do, but that, having set their hearts on the hanging, it only grieved them to find that they had lost so excellent an opportunity of thus skilfully paying the scamp off for his tricks.
The Life and Adventures of Maj. Roger Sherman Potter "Pheleg Van Trusedale" 2004

Quotes with BERATING (3)

Elder mocked me for praying once, and i spent an hour berating him for that. He ended up throwing up his hands, laughing, and telling me i could believe whatever i wanted if i was going to hold onto my beliefs so hard.
Beth Revis A Million Suns
Reconciling is about cleaning out your psychic closet. Do you have unresolved issues which are draining your reserves, causing hurt feelings, filling you with regret, or taxing your tenacity? Reconciling can allow you to move forward with acceptance and surrender, rather than berating yourself for what cannot be changed. Are you ready to enjoy peace?
Susan C. Young
Our errors, mistakes, failures, and sometimes even our humiliations, were necessary steps in the learning process. However, they were meant to be means to an end - and not an end in themselves. When they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten. If we consciously dwell on the error, or consciously feel guilty about the error and keep berating ourselves because of it, then - unwittingly - the error or failure itself becomes the "goal" that is consciously held in imagination and memory.
Maxwell Maltz Psycho-Cybernetics, Updated and Expanded
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal.

Used 6 times in crossword archives (1984–2011).