All 14 Uses of
chide
in
Sweet Far Thing
- "Really, you are brooding, Gemma, and have been all afternoon," Felicity chides as we walk the well-worn path to the chapel for evening prayers.†
Chpt 1 *chides = scolds or criticizes
- Mercy chides.†
Chpt 2
- "Oh, Mr. Kent," Mademoiselle LeFarge chides.†
Chpt 3
- "Ladies," Mademoiselle LeFarge chides, "if you ever wish to leave the confines of Spence again—"†
Chpt 3
- "Miss Worthington, we are not savages, if you please," she chides, handing Felicity a napkin.†
Chpt 3
- "Gemma, really," Felicity chides from her lookout post at the door.†
Chpt 3
- Cecily chides, hands on her hips.†
Chpt 3
- "I don' 'ear ever' fin', Miss Pesterpants," Brigid chides.†
Chpt 3
- I hear Kartik soothing them, and one of the Gypsy women chiding him for petting them.†
Chpt 3chiding = scolding or criticizing
- "You're fidgety as a cat," Brigid chides.†
Chpt 3chides = scolds or criticizes
- Father chides.†
Chpt 4
- "'Ere now," a lady holding a baby chides.†
Chpt 4
- Ann chides gently.†
Chpt 4
- "You shouldn't have said that about Pip," Ann chides, offering me her handkerchief.†
Chpt 4
Definition:
to tell someone they have done wrong -- sometimes in a gentle way to encourage better behavior