chiding

[ US /ˈtʃaɪdɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /t‍ʃˈa‍ɪdɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. rebuking a person harshly
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How To Use chiding In A Sentence

  • Wendy is more pragmatic, gently chiding staff who do not serve customers quickly enough, and acting as an emollient to those whose egos have been bruised by her father's irascibility.
  • Thus a storm was termed the chiding of God, thunder and lightning the arrows of God, for it was thought that God kept the winds confined in caves, His treasuries; thus differing merely in name from the Greek wind-god Eolus. Theologico-Political Treatise
  • Maybe the broadcasting experience honed her writers' voice - one that was chiding, enthusiastic, slangy, argumentative, and sometimes bossy.
  • This with similar usages throughout the KJV seems to be merely hortative, bleached of any chiding tone. Languagehat.com: GO TO, THOU ART A FOOLISH FELLOW.
  • To the suffering and sorrowful she came with words of comfort and consolation, and with words of chiding or of cheer to the "thraward" and the erring, who had helped to make their own trouble. Allison Bain, or, By a Way she knew not
  • Conceptions more and more spiritual thus matured. unfolded, a kind of chiding, or rebuke of heartlessness begins to be heard in certain quarters, as if men could think to carry God’s favor by bullocks and goats and blood! The Vicarious Sacrifice, Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation.
  • But this kind of chiding can make thinness seem rebellious and transgressive, and that will stimulate some thinsuasts. Archive 2006-09-01
  • I had even been known to show disdain for coworkers and friends who exhibited the telltale symptoms: forced laughter, gratuitous free cappuccino, speaking-in-a-higher-pitched-voice-than-normal, chiding them with gruesome tales of Abner Louima and his baton-battered colon. Falling for Captain D.
  • By the time they reached Bodmin Road station the next morning, she was chiding Anna. THE MAIN CAGES
  • Obama is for the Children, "Monday, Nov. 16 - The" chiding "of China was not as subtle as experts think, nor was it as weak as pessimists believe. Chinalyst - China blogs in English
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