chided

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Kazan “rallied him out of his writing blocks, challenged his melodramatic excesses, chivied him to work for greater depth, and allowed his imagination to soar.”

From Washington Post

Last week, chivied by suspicious Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, Czar Jimmy reluctantly released the report.

From Time Magazine Archive

He reported that some 15 million German "displaced persons" were being chivied back & forth across Europe; that some ten million Frenchmen, Italians and others were also waiting to go home.

From Time Magazine Archive

Rights of Man He made the rights of his fellow men plain to them, chivied them into seizing their freedom, and eventually they tossed him aside because they disagreed with his views on religion.

From Time Magazine Archive

You chivied your aristocracy of birth out of existence with yellow papers, your aristocracy of mind with a devastating income tax.

From The Great Prince Shan by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)