rebuke

rebuke (someone or something) for (doing) (something)

To scold, upbraid, or criticize someone, an animal, or some group or organization for some action, error, or wrongdoing. They won't so much as rebuke their child for his bad behavior. It looks like the United Nations is finally willing to formally rebuke the country for disobeying the international treaty. She rebuked the dog for peeing on the carpet.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

rebuke someone for something

to reprimand someone for something. There is no need to rebuke me for a simple mistake like that. Sally was rebuked for overspending her budget.
See also: rebuke
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • rebuke (someone or something) for (doing) (something)
  • rebuke for
  • reprimand
  • reprimand (someone or something) for (doing) (something)
  • reprimand for
  • upbraid
  • upbraid (someone or something) for (doing) (something)
  • upbraid for
  • tear a strip off someone
  • tear someone off a strip
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Critique: An extraordinary and impressive compendium of seminal scholarship, "Washington's Rebuke to Bigotry: Reflections on Our First President's Famous 1790 Letter to the Hebrew Congregation In Newport, Rhode Island" is an invaluable contribution to the study of American Colonial History in general, and the contributions of George Washington to the role of religion and public policy in a fledgling democracy in particular.
After Khamenehi's rebuke last week, Ahmadi-nejad and the two Larijani brothers each wrote letters that they released to the public.
ROY Keane has been handed a dose of his own medicine via a stinging rebuke from Football Association of Ireland chief executive John Delaney.
That lowly workman was as powerless as a newborn thing, as peaceful as a lamb, but he was powerful enough to overturn our primitive expectations, refute the glamour of violence, rebuke the privileges of authority, celebrating surrender, peace, and mercy.
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In spite of the fact that Jesus rebukes those who rebuke Mary, some of us still think that Mary was wasteful, just too extravagant.
This was a sharp rebuke for Republicans who thought they had a good chance at picking up the governor's seat.
Written by Justin Akers Chacon (professor of US History and Chicano Studies in San Diego) and Mike Davis (teaches in the Department of History at the University of California at Irvine), No One Is Illegal: Fighting Racism and State Violence on the US-Mexico Border is a sharp rebuke against anti-immigration vigilantism, denouncing the often violent right-wing backlash against immigrants and striving to put a human face upon the men and women who cross America's borders.
That rout was widely seen as a rejection of sclerotic and uninspired Democratic congressional rule, a rebuke of the shaky first two years of Bill Clinton's presidency, and a sign that a growing portion of the electorate was open to conservative ideas.
The Roman Catholic Papacy has been the target of accusation, slander, caricature, politics and rebuke from its beginnings in the first century of the Christian Church down to the present day.
In the same week that Donald Trump won a reported $4 million from a contractor who tried to cheat him, the developer earned a rebuke from the New York Building Congress for calling the city's contractors "'slime.'"
Paul gave Timothy this advice: "Do not rebuke an older man but exhort him as you would a father, treat younger men like brothers, older women like mothers, younger women like sisters and all with complete purity."
The underlying indeterminacy of the physical world, and perhaps all the more so our experience of it, reserves a rebuke for any kind of graphic fixity.
Critical comments made at a hearing in late June drew a rebuke from Regent Gary Stuart, a former liaison with the community college system.
It was later revealed that Thacker, an HIV-positive straight man, had called homosexuality a "sinful deathstyle" and AIDS "the gay plague." Thacker turned down the post following a rebuke from the White House.