Lessoned [verb]
Definition of Lessoned:
reprimand; criticize harshly
Synonyms of Lessoned:
● Scold
● Chide
● Berate
● Admonish
● Upbraid
● Censure
● Oppose
● Reproach
● Read
● Pay
● Rake
● Rip
● Blame
● Lecture
● Lesson
● Reprove
● Fry
● Zap
● Bawl out
● Chew out
● Lay into
● Tell off
● Go after
● Monish
● Jawbone
● Carp on
● Jump on
● Lean on
● Sit on
● Tick off
Sentence/Example of Lessoned:
He was conventional, and the infinite moment of meeting in paradise with his Lady was embittered by her "cold, lessoned smiles."
He has been purged and lessoned to humility before the throne of Zeus.
They have not lessoned you in that proper hardihood which leads to performance.
It lessoned me finely to see him when Sir James came back into the room.
The child who trifles with the powder-match is lessoned by the explosion which destroys him.
They were not lessoned yet by Cohen's case, nor aware of the slipperiness of the eels of the law.
He had lessoned from Spitz, and from the chief fighting dogs of the police and mail, and knew there was no middle course.
The Italians themselves, lessoned by the tragedy of 1527, looked back with no less mingled feelings upon Leo's Rome.
Such moralizing sounds commonplace to us who have been lessoned by the memento mori of the Middle Ages.
He had the Bishop's experience to lesson from, and he lessoned well.