Definition for Upbraiding:

• A charging with something wrong: act of reproaching.

Synonyms for Upbraiding:

• adj.

  •abusive (adjective)
  • more reviling,
  • sharp tongued,
  • most traducing,
  • more reproachful,
  • most vilifying,
  • more traducing,
  • most calumniating,
  • most invective,
  • in solent,
  • more scolding,
  • most scolding,
  • more vilifying,
  • more upbraiding,
  • most maligning,
  • most reproachful,
  • most obloquious,
  • more obloquious,
  • in-solent,
  • more invective,
  • more maligning,
  • most castigating,
  • more castigating,
  • more calumniating,
  • sharptongued,
  • most reviling,
  • most upbraiding.

• n.

  •abuse (noun)
  • badmouthings,
  • pushing arounds,
  • up-braiding,
  • up braidings,
  • knifings,
  • bad-mouthings,
  • upbraidings,
  • up-braidings,
  • bad mouthings,
  • hosings,
  • kicking arounds,
  • up braiding,
  • signifyings.
  •admonition (noun)
  • be-rating,
  • reprovals,
  • talking tos,
  • be-ratings,
  • be rating,
  • beratings,
  • be ratings.
  •bawling out (noun)
  • bawling out.
  •chewing out (noun)
  • chewing out.
  •dressing-down (noun)
  • bawlingout,
  • bawling outs,
  • bawlingouts,
  • dressingdown,
  • lambastings,
  • bawling-outs.
  •dressing down (noun)
  • dressing down.
  •going-over (noun)
  • going-over.
  •rebuke (noun)
  • goingover,
  • re monstrances,
  • talking-tos,
  • kick the teeth,
  • ex-postulations,
  • re-monstrances,
  • re monstrance,
  • re buffs,
  • chewing-outs,
  • re prehension,
  • talkingtos,
  • telling offs,
  • tellingoff,
  • re-monstrance,
  • earfuls,
  • ex postulation,
  • re-pulses,
  • dis approvals,
  • re-prehension,
  • dis-approvals,
  • kick teeth,
  • chewingout,
  • ex postulations,
  • chewing outs,
  • re pulses,
  • telling-offs,
  • dis approval,
  • dis-approval,
  • tellingoffs,
  • re buff,
  • talkingto,
  • ex-postulation,
  • re-buffs,
  • re prehensions,
  • slap face,
  • re-prehensions,
  • chewingouts.
  •tongue-lashing (noun)
  • tonguelashing,
  • tongue lashing.
  •vituperation (noun)
  • verbal abuses.

• v.

  •disapproving (verb)
  • chastening,
  • Censuring,
  • condemning,
  • Denouncing,
  • Deriding,
  • Reproaching,
  • Blaming,
  • Defiling,
  • deprecating,
  • Defaming,
  • scorning,
  • disparaging,
  • Chastising,
  • chiding,
  • Discrediting,
  • Castigating,
  • Renouncing,
  • Vilifying,
  • admonishing,
  • criticizing,
  • disapproving,
  • denigrating.

• Other synonyms:

  •adj.
  • insolent,
  • libelous,
  • offensive,
  • opprobrious,
  • scathing,
  • abusive,
  • reproachful,
  • vituperative,
  • Obloquious.
  •n.
  • abuse,
  • admonition,
  • castigation,
  • earful,
  • hard time,
  • hard times,
  • libel,
  • objurgation,
  • quinine,
  • rebuke,
  • refusal,
  • reprehension,
  • reprimand,
  • reproach,
  • reproof,
  • reproval,
  • revilement,
  • scurrility,
  • talking to,
  • vituperation,
  • Reviling,
  • tongue-lashing,
  • quinines,
  • hosing,
  • scurrilousness,
  • putdown,
  • telling-off,
  • slap in the face,
  • verbal abuse,
  • kicking around,
  • bawling-out,
  • chewing-out,
  • chidings,
  • kick in teeth,
  • kick in the teeth,
  • objurgations,
  • pushing around,
  • put-down,
  • slap in face,
  • slap the face,
  • talking-to,
  • dressing-down.

Antonyms for Upbraiding:

• p. pr. & vb. n.

  • Other antonyms:
    commendation, encomium, approbation, panegyric, eulogy, approval, applause, praise.

Upbraiding Sentence Examples:

• Below, Joe, full of bitter jealousy, was still upbraiding Bela.

• Kind Lady May has done her best to persuade her to come down with her to Brighton, but the perversity or the indolence of grief has prevailed, and Alice has grown more melancholy and self - upbraiding about her quarrel with her father, and will not be persuaded to leave Mortlake, the very worst place she could have chosen, as Lady May protests, for a residence during her mourning.