upbraid
verb (used with object)
to find fault with or reproach severely; censure.
had upbraided
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past perfectof upbraid.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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One was a Feb. 6 report in the Global Times, an English-language publication of the Chinese Communist Party, that the Chinese government had upbraided Tesla for lapses in quality control and consumer relations in China.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2021
If Maxwell had upbraided her with the bitterness she merited, it would have been to her as if it were all right again with Godolphin.
From The Story of a Play A Novel by William Dean Howells
When he had told the king thereof, and had upbraided him for his untimely humility, the king gave his brother an answer which he failed to understand.
From Barlaam and Ioasaph by Saint John of Damascus
Cecily would have felt it as a relief if Lucy Ellen had upbraided her, but after her outburst on the night she sent Cromwell away, Lucy Ellen never uttered a word of reproach or complaint.
From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
Ephie, who, in the interval, had upbraided herself incessantly, was none the less, now the moment had come, about to pass as before—even more frigidly.
From Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson
