0 past simple and past participle of upbraid --
1 to forcefully or angrily tell someone they should not have done a particular thing and criticize them for having done it: --
In newspaper articles she consistently upbraided those in authority who overstepped their limits.
The consuls upbraided them for being as unruly as the people in the forum, whereupon a vote was held.
Inasmuch as we on these benches have been upbraided for not doing certain things in 1929, it is as well to remember just what we did.
Nor can the moral invalid be upbraided for his degraded position any more than the patient with locomotor ataxia for tumbling down in a crowded street.
Instead, the miners are upbraided and derided.
He upbraided us and said that the country was horrified at the way we were conducting our debates and that this was an appalling state of affairs.
He upbraided me gently with suggesting that, after all, only one type was ultimately attractive.
At any rate, he hauled the deputation pretty severely over the coals, and, among other things, he upbraided them for not being sufficiently grateful.
I fully expect to be upbraided or criticised, but they say that they are against the proposal too.
