to find fault with someone; to rebuke or scold someone (not as strong as castigate, stronger than chide); admonish; rebuke; reproach; lambast; berate
TC Parker (she/her)
@tcparker.bsky.social
Shauna normally forbids me from using Irishisms in day to day life, on account of my Feckin Englishness, but I'm happy to say that I just used "good craic" for the first time in an appropriate context and was not upbraided
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Arthur David Olson
@dashdashado.bsky.social
Today's Google's Greatest Hits: upbraided a d downbraided over time.
Spoilers: upbraided much less common now than in the early 19th century but on the rise in the 21st; no instances of downbraided.
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=upbraided%2Cdownbraided&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=0&case_insensitive=false...
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@eu-people.bsky.social
Pentagon chief’s review appears out of step with what NATO allies are already doing :: WRAL.com
https://www.europesays.com/people/120738/
BRUSSELS (AP) — Hours after U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth upbraided his NATO allies and announced a Pentagon…
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