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Example sentences for: chide

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A frequent ploy in reviewing scholarly books is for the reviewer to chide the writer for not having written the book he would like to have read.
Columbine T-shirts, on the other hand, are a minor crime; it is unbecoming to chide weeping friends of the deceased for not reacting in a more stylish way.
They chide the opera for making African folk deities the major characters at the expense of explaining the slave revolt itself.
One might have been tempted to chide these respondents with the comment that "Pride goes before a fall" (Proverbs 16:19), but doubtless they would just have snapped back brazenly with "Euripides" or "Racine."
[Mary Imber went on to chide the Editor for a number of typographical errors-- literals in English English--(e.g., Ford Maddox Ford for ... Madox ...) for which only apologies, no excuses, are offered.