Synonyms for riot act
riot act

Princeton's WordNet

1. riot actnoun

   a vigorous reprimand

   "I read him the riot act"

2. Riot Actnoun

   a former English law requiring mobs to disperse after a magistrate reads the law to them

Matched Categories

1. • Law
   • Rebuke

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1. Kristen Myers:

   This has been one of the worst years, i ’m in the store every day, and I had several days were customers were coming in to give Kristen Myers and Dallas Buttars the riot act. Kristen Myers and Dallas Buttars also had people asking, ‘ Can you put that special stuff in my sandwich ? ’.

2. John Hannah:

   Instead of reading Erdogan the riot act in a last-ditch effort to warn him off the S-400 deal, The President accepted hook, line and sinker Erdogan's ridiculous claim that it was all President Obama's fault, and that Turkey was somehow justified in alienating NATO and cozying up to( Russian President Vladimir) Putin.