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 was muted so much, athletes would chide me by pushing an imaginary button when I asked a question.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2025

While they often chide guests for not owning Apple—or enough Apple—they never blame anyone for shunning Nvidia.

From Slate ● Feb. 19, 2024

How could you not hear me knocking? he would chide.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

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

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

Contemplating escaping Rome, she talks of buying an island; Marcello chides her: “Your problem is you have too much money.”

From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2024

There's no point in worrying about things you can't change, Gram’s voice chides, and you can't change what people think of you.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish

Elvis Presley's iconic Graceland mansion will stay in the family after the death of his only chid, Lisa Marie Presley.

From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2023

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

From Washington Post ● Jul. 21, 2022

“Your just a big chid an won’t let me have a life!”

From The Guardian ● Oct. 31, 2019

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

From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2014

Seest thou not that thou dost tease the maiden?” chid the wife.

From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Lucy Foster Madison

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

“That’s mean,” Hazel chided, but she felt like something was untangling inside her—a knot of tension she’d been carrying for weeks.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

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

I am not a child that needs to be chidden with the rod or with harsh speeches; and my father's blood boils as fiercely in my veins as the blood of the Douglas in yours.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15 by Various

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

What shall be done with them at these times—are they to be coaxed—or chidden or fed with sponge cake?

From Say and Seal, Volume II by Susan Warner

She was gravely chidden for touching these in wonder, and then she saw other shapes, resembling San Donato, passing rank behind rank in the clouds.

From Stories by American Authors, Volume 7 by Various

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

Museveni, who has ruled the country since 1986, routinely addresses the nation on TV, chiding residents to adhere to proper hygiene and other preventive measures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

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

From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2025

Earlier that month, Ely had written to Perkins again, affectionately chiding her for missing a social gathering and exclaiming, “I feel lost in the new Immigration set-up!”

From Slate ● Jan. 26, 2025

“If we get saved,” Irmgard said in a scolding, severe tone, as if chiding her, “it’ll be because of Roy.”

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick