scold

Murray is right to worry about that separation—even if his only use of his correct perception is to scold.

Meanwhile, he was amassing furniture and bric-a-brac, just as the bird bits of straw; and he implored her not to scold him.

The latter awoke, rubbed his one good eye, and began to scold the rustic with great ill-humor.

So instead of leaving these disgraceful little Ducks alone, which would perhaps have been wiser, she began to scold them.

The boy's first impulse was to cry, but when he saw me he began to scold about having Beatrice loose in the barnyard.

"I didn't want to ask you to post it, because I thought perhaps Mrs. Partridge would find out, and then she'd scold you," I said.