chide
verb (used with object)
to express disapproval of; scold; reproach.
is chiding
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present progressiveof chide (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Camille's innocence, however, is chiding, manipulative, a weapon wielded with instinctual skill against a battery of eager victims.
From Time Magazine Archive
From the wood a sound is gliding, Vapours dense the plain are hiding, How yon Dame her son is chiding.
From The Talisman by George Henry Borrow
That is chiding enough, certainly, for our spiritual lords.
From The Epistles of St. Peter and St. Jude Preached and Explained by E. H. (Ezra Hall) Gillett
In the soliloquy of the second act, where she is chiding at the nurse's delay:— O she is lame!
From Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson
