Example sentences for: chided

How can you use “chided” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Those works are presumably meant to be Realist and Symbolist (respectively) allusions to his homosexual identity, and Rauschenberg is chided for not publicly affirming the same.

  • Although Holder chided government lawyers for formulating a "sloppy," "overly aggressive" response to the AAPS lawsuit and took Magaziner to task for using ill-defined legalistic language supplied him by White House counsel Vincent Foster, he concluded his investigation by declining to prosecute Magaziner for criminal contempt.

  • Director Joe Dante is chided for wasting realistic special effects and the voices of Tommy Lee Jones and Ernest Borgnine and for failing to reprise the biting humor of his magnum opus, Gremlins . Critics dwell on the irony of the late Phil Hartman's character getting caught in crossfire.

  • Republicans congratulated Clinton for moving in their direction but chided him for not going far enough.

  • Having chided Harris for exalting social advantage over "character," critics turn around and adopt his ruthless logic.


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