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• n  rebuking a person harshly
• v  censure severely or angrily

• Furthermore, she delighted in joining the others on stage in chiding Obama for his own remark about using force in Pakistan (for which she was notably booed).
• KATHLEEN SEBELIUS, Health and Human Services Secretary, during a press conference, chiding NBC correspondent Chuck Todd for not sneezing in the bend of his arm, the proper way to .
• Cosby was chiding a black audience about accepting responsibility.

• scolding
• objurgation
• tongue-lashing
• call on the carpet
• take to task
• rebuke
• rag
• trounce
• reproof
• lecture
• reprimand
• jaw
• dress down
• call down
• scold
• chide
• berate
• bawl out
• remonstrate
• chew out
• chew up
• have words
• lambaste
• lambast

News & Articles

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• Pound for pound, pregnancy bullying hurting moms
  The national celebrity magazines have noted the recent weight gain of TV star Kim Kardashian – who is due to deliver her and Kanye West's baby girl. But, those same magazines are chiding Princess Kate for not gaining enough weight during their pregnancy. Is this kind of scrutiny really healthy?
  June 12, 2013 - Fox News
• Santa Clara Unified: Administrators, principals flee turbulent school district
  SANTA CLARA -- Since a power shift in November, the Santa Clara Unified School Board has been accused of micromanaging, chiding and intimidating employees, usurping their roles and making abrupt decisions that muddled school operations.
  June 7, 2013 - The Milpitas Post
• Calvin Johnson not the first Detroit Lion to support abstinence, but many fans applaud his message
  Some chiding and the controversy surrounding Detroit Lions' Calvin Johnson's funding of a pro-abstinence film was expected; the overwhelmingly positive reaction was not.
  June 6, 2013 - MLive.com

Quotes

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• Mike Huckabee in Boston Globe (registration)
  Well, yesterday, he was chiding me,Huckabee said on CNN. "He said not to whine. Today, he's changed his position on whining, and today he's for whining. So once again, Mitt has been able to take both sides of all issues, including...
• Kevin McCarthy in Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier
  This is more of an enforcement mechanism, the gentle chiding of our committee chairs,said McCarthy.
• Maureen Dowd in Slate
  She dialed back on proclaiming him "a gifted man, but in the end just a man," after New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, who has lots of advice for wives, wrote that some supporters "worried that her chiding was emasculating, casting her...