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scolding; telling-off; rebuke; lecture
complaint; grumbling; fault-finding
母はいつも私に小言を言う。
My mother always nags me.
課長に小言を聞かされた。
I was lectured by the section chief.
夫は妻の小言を右から左へ聞き流した。
The husband ignored his wife's nagging.