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'to scold' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to a person scolding another person, usually a parent scolding a child. Example sentence: The mother scolded her son for not doing his homework.
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Tendency to scold?
Mr Sarkozy, too, likes to scold bank chiefs.
He has been known to scold parents, too.
Joe, our interpreter, was right there to scold me.
"He used to scold me, saying: 'You will be nothing.
Muckler immediately called a timeout to scold players out.
He was never a father to scold, forbid, or punish.
King was careful, all the same, not to scold.
But let's not expect the president to scold them.
"The parents aren't there to scold or say: 'No, Timmy!
But it would be wrong to scold the Swedes for elevating their countryman Tomas Transtromer.
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