Word: scold
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...Occasionally one comes along who, like Tho stein Veblen (The Theory of the Leisure Class), gives society a therapeutic, though not necessarily accurate, boot in the pants. But a few of them suffer from a rare though virulent occupational disease. They become hectoring critics of their fellow men. They scold. They even grit their teeth...
Under the Bed. Author Chevallier is obviously out for a fictional romp, and even people who deplore his easy tolerance can enjoy his plotless prattle. Marcel Aymé, as able a writer as any in France, is no more inclined to scold sinners, but his tightly plotted yarn is a more sardonic, more pointed comment on the human comedy. The Green Mare has some of the quality of a fable, as well as some of the inescapable judgment of life that every good fable offers. In the farm town of Claquebue most human feelings and actions are taken coolly...
...Saint Ildefonso used to scold me and punish me lots of times. He would sit me on the bare floor and make me eat with the cats of the monastery. These cats were such rascals that they took advantage of my penitence. They drove me mad stealing my choicest morsels. It did no good to chase them away. But I found a way of coping with the beasts in order to enjoy my meals...
PERRIN DRAPPIER, beadle of Domremy: "Joan the Maid was a good girl, chaste, simple, and modest, all the years of her youth . . . When I did not ring for complin, Joan used to ask me why and scold me . . . She even promised me a present of wool if I would be regular in ringing...
...Tolerant. "My father cannot be considered a typical Bostonian," admits Mark Howe's son, Radio Commentator Quincy Howe. "He's not caustic enough. He's not a scold. He has a tolerance that is not typical of Boston. Mother was a real Bostonian, from a family of Brahmins. She was always crabbing about something...