chide

He chided her for carelessness.

chided the boy for his sloppiness.

she chided him for not replying to her letters.

His father chided him for being late.

He gently chides his students every time they misspelled a word.

he chided Dennis for his disinterest in anything that is not his own idea.

From Alexander the grammarian, to refrain from fault-finding, and not in a reproachful way to chide those who uttered any barbarous or solecistic or strange-sounding expression;

" You'd better get on your course, then, " I chided.

" You are. You are chiding me" .

This was a poor message, AdWeek chided, at a time when " hustle culture feels downright toxic."

After I confided, I was derided and chided, my moms and I collided.

Ah, they chide sceptical journalists, but you haven't considered our organisers.

" You are not kind, my prince, " Ser Rodrik chided gently.

'Faint heart! ' she chided him. 'Draw your sword, Knight, and help us reach our goal! '

They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds In singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear.

When Mr Harper visited China in 2009, his hosts chided him for waiting almost four years before coming.

The epidemiologist was an early proponent of face masks and chided the Australian government's slow procurement of vaccines.