0 past simple and past participle of berate --
1 to criticize or speak in an angry manner to someone: --
Doctors are often berated for being poor communicators, particularly when they have to give patients bad news.
As he left the meeting, he was berated by angry demonstrators.
I do not think that we should be berated or criticised for not being absolute in our approach.
For instance, the more work that is done by clinicians, the more they are berated by administrators for exceeding their budgets.
We are always being berated for our "middle-class" virtues and goodness knows what.
He welcomed some aspects of the order and berated others.
Then the figure of a registrar and a staff of 20 was berated as derisively small.
It is the wife who gets berated by her husband if she pays too much.
On the one hand—perhaps this is nothing new—the banks are berated for not providing sufficient funds for industry and for being unadventurous.
When those children identified themselves, they were made to stand in front of the class to be berated.
