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English
Etymology
From upbraiding + -ly.
Adverb
upbraidingly (comparative more upbraidingly, superlative most upbraidingly)
- So as to upbraid; scoldingly.
1898, Henry Francis Keenan, The Iron Game:He hears the horses--they have broken their tethers--he can hear them whinnying, upbraidingly, far off.
1919, Lucas Malet, Deadham Hard: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?