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"Sharp scolding"2 answers
earful6 lettersrebuke6 letters
Filled answer is this word (REBUKE).
Definitions
censure severely or angrily
Word origin
From Middle English rebuken, from Anglo-Norman rebuker (“to beat back, repel”), from re- + Old French *buker, buchier, buschier (“to strike, hack down, chop”), from busche (“wood”), from Vulgar Latin *busca (“wood, grove”), from Frankish *busk (“grove”), from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush”); equivalent to re- + bush.
Used in a sentence
“U.S. Vice President JD Vance met Saturday with the Vatican's No. 2 official, following a remarkable papal rebuke of the Trump administration’s crackdown on migrants and Vance’s theological justification of it.”
“O Lord, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.”
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01“Sharp scolding”6 letters
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