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upbraidingly

adverb

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Wiktionary

adv

Etymology: From upbraiding + -ly.

  1. So as to upbraid; scoldingly.

    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?