censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"
an act or expression of criticism and censure; "he had to take the rebuke with a smile on his face"
An expression of blame or censure; especially, blame expressed to the face; censure for a fault; chiding; reproach
If you say or do something in reproof, you say or do it to show that you disapprove of what someone has done or said. She raised her eyebrows in reproof. a reproof that she responded to right away