upbraidingly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
So as to upbraid; scoldingly.
Example Sentences
- "He hears the horses--they have broken their tethers--he can hear them whinnying, upbraidingly, far off."
- "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?"
Etymology
From upbraiding + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more upbraidingly (comparative)
most upbraidingly (superlative)