Usually means: Reprimanding someone for wrongdoing verbally.
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  1. telling-off: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. telling-off, telling-off: Collins English Dictionary
  3. telling-off: Wordnik
  4. telling-off: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. telling-off: Wiktionary
  6. telling-off: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  An instance of telling someone off, a reprimand or scolding.

Similar:
telling off, telling-to, rebuking, coating, admonishment, reproof, lesson, reproaching, reproving, reprimand, more...

Opposite:
praise, compliment, commendation

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Similar:
telling off, telling-to, rebuking, coating, admonishment, reproof, lesson, reproaching, reproving, reprimand, more...

Opposite:
praise, compliment, commendation



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