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beneficii
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04 Sep 2015, 8:31 pm

My dad when giving advice frequently talks like this, expressing obvious frustration and disapproval to me:

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Did you think of doing X?
Did you think of doing Y?
You know, I can think of a hundred things you could do.
Have you even thought of one?


Here, the tone is expressing frustration and a sense that the listener has been "bad" or "lazy."

Can anyone more clearly define, perhaps even with a single word, exactly what this method of talking is?


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04 Sep 2015, 8:55 pm

I guess he is simply a critical person:

http://personalexcellence.co/blog/critical-people/


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04 Sep 2015, 9:07 pm

Negative motivation.


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04 Sep 2015, 9:12 pm

"Hectoring".