sharp rebuke

It was the kind of answer that usually brought a sharp rebuke.

But they could not agree on removal from office or a sharp rebuke.

The statement provoked a sharp rebuke from the Democratic leadership.

The Iowa inquiry is only the latest in which the service has come under sharp rebuke.

Madouc sent him back the way he had come with a sharp rebuke.

Despite this sharp rebuke, Mussolini showed up for work the next day as usual.

But the verdict was overturned in 1989 with a sharp rebuke to the prosecution.

They were nearing the end of the session when she broke the silence with that sharp rebuke.

Usually when a committee member suggests an idea, Angela immediately shoots it down with a mean comment or sharp rebuke.

Ford's action led to a sharp rebuke from Firestone, which insists its tires are safe.

Stunned at the sharp rebuke, David came back.

She would have replied but froze at a sharp rebuke from an older woman further along the stone workbench.

Why did he feel so confused now, when all he risked was a sharp rebuke?

Very occasionally, she would deliver a sharp rebuke.

Moichi, ready with a sharp rebuke, found that he did not want to look inside himself, and in a sense that was answer enough.

The decision was a sharp rebuke for the Federal Communications Commission.

At this my drowsiness, too, had vanished, and I looked at him with sharp rebuke.

He had just received the Colonel's sharpest rebuke.

But his hijab comments drew a sharp rebuke from members of his own party.

Glaring up at him, she opened her mouth to give him a sharp rebuke, and heard the stage door creak.

The performance drew a sharp rebuke yesterday from the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

Dontsova came back with a sharp rebuke.

The returns constituted a sharp rebuke to Mr. Clinton.

Mrs. Lee's evident personal disgust, even more than her last sharp rebuke, passed the bounds of his patience.

Durwald gave the Cimmerian a sharp rebuke, with no decree of any real punishment, and dismissed him.