4 uses
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Definition
to tell someone they have done wrong — sometimes in a gentle way to encourage better behavior
- "You'd have probably thrown her off the porch if she hadn't passed out," Annie Kate chided me, her finger tracing the stiffly barbered hairline at the back of my neck.Chapter 3.29 (74% in)
- I'll score one for you and one for Vietnam," I chided him.Chapter 3.30 (30% in)
- Imagine the nerve of Durrell, that upcountry dandy, chiding me for shoddy scholarship.Chapter 4.34 (70% in)
- Remembering that my professor in the modern novel, Colonel Masters, a shy and excellent teacher, had chided me gently about my irrepress-ible love of adjectives, I started again with clear simple sentences.Chapter 4.41 (13% in)
There are no more uses of "chide" in The Lords of Discipline.
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