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  • verb Past participle of chide
  • adjective chided, reproved, rebuked or scolded

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Examples

  • As the twilight drew on, its eager yearning for the fire mastered it, and with a great lifting and shifting of forefeet, it whined softly, then flattened its ears down in anticipation of being chidden by the man.

    To Build A Fire 2010

  • As the twilight drew on, its eager yearning for the fire mastered it, and with a great lifting and shifting of forefeet, it whined softly, then flattened its ears down in anticipation of being chidden by the man.

    To Build A Fire 2010

  • As the twilight drew on, its eager yearning for the fire mastered it, and with a great lifting and shifting of forefeet, it whined softly, then flattened its ears down in anticipation of being chidden by the man.

    To Build a Fire 2010

  • Those, thus chidden, also contracted and helped spread the contagion.

    An Odyssey of the North 2010

  • Those, thus chidden, also contracted and helped spread the contagion.

    An Odyssey of the North 2010

  • Believing in such stuff was for chidden and gullible savages.

    A Simple Misunderstanding Harris Tobias 2011

  • And the Mormons revisit the teachings they held only 30 years ago about blacks being chidden of God?

    The law prevents discrimination against gays -- even by those who purport to base their hatred on religion 2009

  • And the Mormons revisit the teachings they held only 30 years ago about blacks being chidden of God?

    The law prevents discrimination against gays -- even by those who purport to base their hatred on religion 2009

  • Kolb went off, growling like a chidden dog, obedient but protesting; and David proposed to give his father indisputable proof of his discovery, while reserving his secret.

    Eve and David 2007

  • But Voltaire did not know how much a man is the product of a system operating on, and with, the individual predisposition, or he would not have chidden

    Voltaire 2007

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