chide
verb (used with object)
to express disapproval of; scold; reproach.
have chid
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present perfectof chide.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Good Lord, you use this dalliance to excuse Your breach of promise to the Porcupine: I should have chid you for not bringing it, But, like a shrew, you first begin to brawl.
From The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
Is all the council that we two have shared, the hours that we have spent, When we have chid the hasty-footed time For parting us—Oh! and is all forgot?
From The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe
Alas, I then have chid away my friend.
From Characters of Shakespeare's Plays by William Hazlitt
I then have chid away my friend: He hath a stern look, but a gentle heart.
From The American Union Speaker by John D. (John Dudley) Philbrick
SIR,—If it were the carrier's fault that you stayed so long for your letters, you are revenged, for I have chid him most unreasonably.
From The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54 by Edward Abbott Parry
