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dressing-down

noun as in severe scolding

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Days later, supermodel Kate Moss accosted Bieber at another party in Ibiza, giving him a dressing down over his behavior.

After a cruel dressing down from their former group leader, Jeff, they all dejectedly sign.

In an unprecedented move for a postwar German leader, she summoned the American ambassador to her office for a dressing down.

But Crystal sees through the ruse, and gives Julian a thorough dressing-down, insulting the size of his manhood.

From dressing down JFK to regrets about Neil Armstrong, Howard Kurtz has the top 10.

Every day we tell each other that we are fine bunglers, and give each other a regular dressing down.

That fellow I gave a dressing-down about India to up at the Pratts' there.

Falstaff, the beery lout, would be an impossible companion, and Prince Hal a tiresome young cub who wanted a good dressing-down.

The few days towards the end of the season at the Old Virgin are a race between the ships at catching and dressing down.

Perhaps you gave her such a dressing-down, Billie, that shes turned over a new leaf.

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On this page you'll find 14 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to dressing-down, such as: bawling-out, castigation, chiding, lambasting, reprimand, and reproach.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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