0 to criticize or speak in an angry manner to someone:
As he left the meeting, he was berated by angry demonstrators.
Doctors are often berated for being poor communicators, particularly when they have to give patients bad news.
In particular, he has been berated for not forseeing the human consequences that would flow from the partition decision.
Inadequate infrastructure was berated universally as an impediment to commerce.
It is interesting that she should berate the media and then, in the next sentence, capitulate.
Americans collectively learned to be hard on themselves individually, to demand constant self-improvement and to berate themselves when their lives fell short of their dreams.
Any analytical methodology would thus have to consider the structural as well as the ideological makings of (con)text to avoid privileging the norm and berating the deviant.
Oliver argues that ' all is not well in the kingdom of rehabilitation ' and he berates the ' physicality ' of current practice whereby success is defined largely in terms of physical activity.
Some press reports have referred to "berating", "bullying"and"hectoring".
They have equally often been berated for indulging in politics.