Sentence examples for dressed him down from inspiring English sources
A fellow-editor dressed him down: "You're bringing American standards to the newspaper".
Dr. Musgrave dressed him down, saying such last-minute changes put the mission in danger.
When Defense Secretary Les Aspin complained that the Pentagon had been shortchanged $50 billion, Panetta dressed him down in public.
A couple of times, judges dressed him down for what they considered cowboy tactics in the courtroom.
Fernandes recalled admonishing his reporters in a memo, "A quote is exactly what somebody said and the way he said it". A fellow-editor dressed him down: "You're bringing American standards to the newspaper". Eight months later, Fernandes resigned.
Sources close to Yahoo and Alibaba say that when Bartz entered the job two years ago, she didn't reach out to Ma or Wei and when Ma finally came to Sunnyvale to meet with her, she dressed him down in front of his management team criticizing what Alibaba had done with Yahoo's China portal.
The Bush Administration, in turn, declared Sharon's remarks "unacceptable," and Colin Powell telephoned Sharon twice, it was reported, to "dress him down".
You can imagine the biting sarcasm — the way Mr. Giuliani would sneeringly refer to Mrs. Clinton as "her," the way she would dress him down as "the mayor".
Now I have been careful about inveighing against the wearing of headphones in public places ever since a person apparently wired up to the usual musical inanities walked blindly into me, stopped in amazement and, before I could dress him down, told me that by wonderful coincidence he was listening to my latest novel on audio book.
The only way to purge disgust was to blast Mr. Embezzler, to annihilate him in words, dress him down, rub his nose in his crime, then to max Mr. Embezzler under the guidelines (that is, to give him a year and a half, instead of a year), then to blast the defense attorney for having 16 typos in his sentencing memo.
You don't need to dress him down, you just need to correct the behavior quickly.
