chide

He never missed an opportunity to chide his colleagues for their failure to apply their own precedents.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

Human beings as a whole do not employ the same ethics a responsible newspaper does — though today many of us chide the press solely when the news is unfavorable to our own personal prejudices.

From Salon ● Feb. 6, 2026

“I’m sure once Christmastime rolls around, we’ll kind of chide him a little bit,” Karras joked.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 9, 2023

But it’s clear that we’re in a new frontier of public behavior… and that it might be more difficult—and more dangerous—to chide our neighbors.

From Slate ● Aug. 22, 2023

He then went on to chide Jefferson for talking like an old man.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

When Teng feels that including a photo of dead children violates their dignity, Perlmutter chides her, insisting that their obligation is to show Americans what their tax dollars are funding.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

Epstein advises him on the sale of his healthcare business, and chides him for not being careful enough in checking out the background of a new contact.

From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2026

Like Mustafa tells Mary after he chides her Arabic phrase book, “If it’s important for you, necessary, then the words get power. And like magic, you learn it.”

From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2025

She grows increasingly obsessed with the missing girl, and then with Cleo, who chides Maddie, perhaps from the grave, for missing the big picture.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2024

As we watch the Barang float on his back in the water, Keav chides Chou for giving me the wrong information. means he’s French. but they can be from many other countries, including America.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

Ministers have said the policy, which could be worth as much as £20 a week per chid, was unaffordable and always time-limited.

From BBC ● Jan. 23, 2024

Fed up and enraged, the king angrily chid, “Wear your armor all day, like the dasypodid!”

From Washington Post ● Jul. 21, 2022

Bell’s current list of charities covers a staggering amount of ground: animal rights, prostate cancer, stem cell donation, Alzheimer’s disease, international child hunger, domestic chid poverty and young mothers raised in foster care.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 26, 2018

“My refusing to eat Flesh occasioned an Inconveniency,” Franklin later recalled, “and I was frequently chid for my singularity.”

From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2014

Displeased with what His servants did, And having their unkindness chid, He makes His pleasure shine so bright, Causing the mothers much delight.

From The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young by Various

Musk has frequently chided SoftBank, which is a major investor in OpenAI, the artificial-intelligence company that the world’s richest person unsuccessfully sued this year over its transition into a for-profit structure.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 10, 2026

Reaves chided Doncic about losing in rowing, bowling and golf while they were in Slovenia together.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

Korner chided the prosecution for "wholesale dumping" of documents and urged the parties to work together to reduce the size of the case file.

From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026

In the first week of trial, she chided Musk for recent posts to his social media platform X, in which he spoke disparagingly of OpenAI and Sam Altman, whom he referred to as "Scam Altman".

From BBC ● May 6, 2026

“Lupita, do not sigh so much,” chided Salvador.

From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty

Helen Burns asked some slight question about her work of Miss Smith, was chidden for the triviality of the inquiry, returned to her place, and smiled at me as she again went by.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

He thought of her as she had come to distribute words of comfort, binding up the wounds of the afflicted, giving meat to the hungry; though her stern husband had chidden her for it.

From What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales by H. W. (Henry William) Dulcken

During childhood, indulged, in every wish; admired where she should have been chidden, caressed where she should have been corrected; coaxed into pettishness, and spoilt into tyranny.

From The Wanderer (Volume 3 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney

I would be chidden for a month rather than that you should lose this ball,—you would be so happy, and so much admired!'

From Discipline by Mary Brunton

I had heard the same when I was a child; the nurse had been chidden for talking of it in my presence, and my own questions on the subject had always been evaded.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None by Various (magazine) Harper

Less than 24 hours after that chiding, Amorim was sacked, and the focus was on the part Wilcox played in that.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

Fans, tired of hearing about “new” features they’ve been using for years, are spreading conspiracy theories about the new phone and chiding potential defectors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

It wasn’t long after that moment that Cronin went viral again, this time for chiding a reporter who asked about the Michigan State student section during his postgame interview.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2026

Gigi now starts each video chiding commentators who accuse her of being AI.

From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2025

He couldn’t help chiding himself1—it’d been a stupid idea.

From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner