Crossword-Solution: UPBRAID
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Upbraid | v. t. | To charge with something wrong or disgraceful; to reproach; to cast something in the teeth of; -- followed by with or for, and formerly of, before the thing imputed. |
| Upbraid | v. t. | To reprove severely; to rebuke; to chide. |
| Upbraid | v. t. | To treat with contempt. |
| Upbraid | v. t. | To object or urge as a matter of reproach; to cast up; -- with to before the person. |
| Upbraid | v. i. | To utter upbraidings. |
| Upbraid | n. | The act of reproaching; contumely. |
We have 31 clues for the answer “UPBRAID”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Scold, reproach | 1 answer |
| Reprove sharply. | 1 answer |
| Read the riot act to | 7 answers |
| Tongue-lash | 9 answers |
| CENSURE OR CRITICIZE | 10 answers |
| Scold severely | 10 answers |
| tell off | 10 answers |
| CENSURE SEVERELY OR ANGRILY | 11 answers |
| exprobate | 13 answers |
| inveigh | 17 answers |
| strafe | 18 answers |
| MAKE allegations against | 19 answers |
| Chew (out) | 21 answers |
| Revile | 25 answers |
| Twit | 25 answers |
| dispraise | 26 answers |
| CRITICIZE SEVERELY | 27 answers |
| Bawl (out) | 30 answers |
| Reprove | 31 answers |
| Rail | 33 answers |
| Chide | 35 answers |
| Berate | 35 answers |
| Warn | 40 answers |
| Admonish | 40 answers |
| Lash | 42 answers |
| Lambaste | 51 answers |
| Scold | 62 answers |
| Rebuke | 71 answers |
| Reprimand | 73 answers |
| reproach | 82 answers |
| Censure | 93 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETERA
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Sentences with UPBRAID (5)
Darling by this time, and may be sure that she would upbraid us for depriving the children of their little pleasure.
This is servitude, To serve th’ unwise, or him who hath rebelld Against his worthier, as thine now serve thee, Thy self not free, but to thy self enthrall’d; Yet leudly dar’st our ministring upbraid.
What they upbraid the bourgeoisie with is not so much that it creates a proletariat, as that it creates a _revolutionary_ proletariat.
The witch with her hoarse cry is working For woe when we go to the holmgang, And if bale be the end of the battle The blame, be assured, will be hers.” “Well,” she said, “I can manage so that none shall know thee.” Then Cormac began to upbraid her, saying she did nought but ill, and wanting to drag her out to the door to look at her eyes in the sunshine.
Madame enchants me; I can forgive that royal minx her most serious offences; I can thrill and soften with the King on that memorable occasion when he goes to upbraid and remains to flirt; and when it comes to the “_Allons_, _aimez-moi donc_,” it is my heart that melts in the bosom of de Guiche.
Quotes with UPBRAID (2)
... Wrapped in the overcoat, he dropped on the seat and faced the eternal verities of sky and sea. No land was intruding. It was the bowl of the sky closing down; the smooth wash of the sea rolling in; and away in the distance a faint red glow marked the spot where the sun threw its light on a world that was steadily turning from it. There Jamie did some more thinking. He was having plenty of mental exercise in those days. He still thought Death, but at least he had a manlier…
Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I did by the persuasion of other men, yet my own conscience did cheek and upbraid me in it.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1953–2018).