Censure severely or angrily

Usage examples of chiding.

Garden of Forty Felicitous Fragrances, Fainting Maid was insulting the intelligence of her ladies-in-waiting in the Gallery of Precious Peacocks, and the Ancestress was chiding a servant who had dropped a cup on the Terrace of Sixty Serenities.

He did not look at either Omyela or Farad, but saw out of the corner of his eye that both took the chiding to heart.

Chiding herself for being a peagoose, she called them in and took up her sewing.

If I understood her aright, she was chiding us for our misbelief and preposterous delay.

The last came out in a somewhat self-righteous tone, considering the speaker, Carole thought, chiding herself.

Garden of Forty Felicitous Fragrances, Fainting Maid was insulting the intelligence of her ladies-in-waiting in the Gallery of Precious Peacocks, and the Ancestress was chiding a servant who had dropped a cup on the Terrace of Sixty Serenities.

Apollo, that are borne along by the eddies, the countless tears that he shed aforetime when he came to the sacred race of the Hyperboreans and left shining heaven at the chiding of his father, being in wrath concerning his son whom divine Coronis bare in bright Lacereia at the mouth of Amyrus.

A few minutes later, to his gratification, he heard Drofo chiding Lankwiler for neglecting the unction.

Master Li was also chiding himself, as I learned when he began to mutter in his sleep, but for a different reason.

I have a very clear memory of a golden afternoon when the butler was instructing me in the etiquette of a great house, Henpecked Ho's beloved wife and her seven fat sisters were sipping tea in the Garden of Forty Felicitous Fragrances, Fainting Maid was insulting the intelligence of her ladies-in-waiting in the Gallery of Precious Peacocks, and the Ancestress was chiding a servant who had dropped a cup on the Terrace of Sixty Serenities.

In imagination Luitpold heard the onward tramp of the red-fezzed bayonet bearers echoing through the Balkan passes, saw the little sheepskin-clad mannikins driven back to their villages, saw the augustly chiding spokesman of the Powers dictating, adjusting, restoring, settling things once again in their allotted places, sweeping up the dust of conflict, and now his ears had to listen to the war-drum rolling in quite another direction, had to listen to the tramp of battalions that were bigger and bolder and better skilled in war-craft than he had deemed possible in that quarter.

Despite his chiding, Drizzt was truly awe-stricken by Bruenor's workmanship.

Quoth he, "that rumbleth up and down In Fame's House, full of tidings, Both of fair speech and of chidings, And of false and sooth compouned.

Even when he took it from his mother's drawer without asking, her chidings were feeble and irresolute.

She smiled and said, "List not to his chiding, chier, for I would not have thee abandon our companions.