chide
verb (used with object)
to express disapproval of; scold; reproach.
have been chiding
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present perfect progressiveof chide.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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I see by that glance of your blue eye, master Henry, that you have been chiding your lazy father for lying so long abed.
From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by Kennedy, John Pendleton
When I bethink me that all the time I have been chiding you for being unambitious for glory, you have had this in your mind!
From The Ward of King Canute; a romance of the Danish conquest by Liljencrantz, Ottilie A. (Ottilia Adelina)
