upbraid
verb (used with object)
to find fault with or reproach severely; censure.
will upbraid
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future tenseof upbraid.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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He will ask employees or friends who are putting sugar in coffee or milk in tea why they want to kill themselves and will upbraid people leaving healthful food unfinished about the vitamins they’re squandering.
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2011
In every peevish mood, she will upbraid The life she gave: if I but look awry, She cries,—I'll tell my brother.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 by Sir Walter Scott
Sir 18:18 A fool will upbraid churlishly, and a gift of the envious consumeth the eyes.
From Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible Apocrypha by Anonymous
Thus hope misleads itself in pleasant way, And takes more joys on trust, than love can pay: But, love with long possession once decayed, That face, which now you court, you will upbraid.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 02 by Sir Walter Scott
He must show us his justice, who made us; He must place sin where sin was conceived; We must know if man's God will upbraid us Because we both loved and believed.
From The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems by Frances Fuller Victor
