Example sentences for: chided

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

  • Netanyahu complained about being snubbed by Clinton on a prior visit to the U.S., and Clinton chided him for meeting with Jerry Falwell the other day, noting that Falwell has distributed videos suggesting that Clinton may have been complicit in a murder.

  • Beatty wins praise for his clear explications of Drucker's writings but is chided for "reducing what may have been scintillating intellectual biography to ...

  • Forbes has chided the government for pursuing the case.

  • 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.

  • That holy curmudgeon is usually chided for translating Exodus 34:29 incorrectly in the Vulgate Bible.


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