upbraidingly
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From upbraiding + -ly.
Adverb
[edit]upbraidingly (comparative more upbraidingly, superlative most upbraidingly)
- So as to upbraid; scoldingly.
- 1898, Henry Francis Keenan, The Iron Game[1]:
- He hears the horses--they have broken their tethers--he can hear them whinnying, upbraidingly, far off.
- 1919, Lucas Malet, Deadham Hard[2]:
- And then--there lay the heart of the worry, proving him only too likely a graceless jealous middle-age curmudgeon, a senile sentimentalist, thus did he upbraidingly mock himself--were there not signs of Damaris developing into a rather thorough paced coquette?