Sentence examples for roundly told from inspiring English sources

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He was roundly told off by the Algerian government for interfering in its domestic affairs.

Explaining in more detail, the MP said: "I roundly told her to fuck off".

"I roundly told her to fuck off," she explained to the Huffington Post afterwards.

4.01am BST Filmic Boston Vicky, Greta and Kylie are on their way to Cambridge Brewing Co – and may yet run into the same sort of masters students that Damon and Affleck roundly told off in Good Will Hunting.

But Eldridge writes about the emergence of the new Tory working-class without a hint of patronage or condescension: there is a particularly telling moment when Maureen's daughter's boyfriend lectures a council worker about the need for cultural uplift and is roundly told that, after wiping the arses of the aged and infirm all day, you're entitled to chill out with Corrie or Strictly Come Dancing.

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Colin Powell, America's secretary of state, making his slow way to Israel by way of Morocco, Egypt and Jordan, was told roundly by his hosts that he should hurry up and stop Israel.

She was roundly cheered as she told them the Labour party was on their side, before reading out a message of support from Jeremy Corbyn.

After challenging the prime minister over NHS reforms, he was roundly criticised for telling her to "calm down, dear".

"I've been rejected pretty roundly by people telling me that teenage girls don't watch animation, which I think is hogwash".

After our debate, I was told he was roundly defeated, and in subsequent years he refrained from the win-win rhetoric.

She was roundly abused and Lord Carrington, the Economist and many others told her she was being profane.

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