common scold
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of common scold
First recorded in 1760–70
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With a loud roar of rage, the felicity of phrasing and invaluable candor of a common scold, he immediately started to set things to rights.
From Time Magazine Archive
He envisions himself as a kind of public conscience to the profession, and succeeds at least in being its common scold.
From Time Magazine Archive
What transformed old faithful into a common scold was a series of federal safety regulations.
From Time Magazine Archive
But, as always, Khrushchev on tour turned out to be part frolicking peasant, part common scold.
From Time Magazine Archive
Roosevelt came, quite naturally, to set the doer above the critic, who, he thought, quickly degenerated into a fault finder and from that into a common scold.
From Theodore Roosevelt; an Intimate Biography by William Roscoe Thayer
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