Verb (used with object) : The principal chided the children for their thoughtless pranks. ,She chided him into apologizing.    From Dictionary.com. 

Compared to Henson's little (girl) michief, the fella you are chiding is a mere novice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Henson Nude Teen Controversy] Reference

Coming from an Albertan minister serving an Albertan prime minister in a Conservative government, the chiding was a surprise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Market News] Reference

But this kind of chiding can make thinness seem rebellious and transgressive, and that will stimulate some thinsuasts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-09-01] Reference

The show is all in good, clean, media-chiding fun.    From Wordnik.com.  [A House Is Not A Home] Reference

Often chiding, often smiling at my minute-long delays.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories in Verse] Reference

BALLMER: I was chiding you about going back to Seattle.    From Wordnik.com.  [How We Did It] Reference

But while she was chiding them, they noticed Pao-yü arrive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference

The remark was offered playfully, if not with a bit of chiding.    From Wordnik.com.  [White House Reminds Blue Dogs, Before Tax Cut Vote, That They're Deficit Hawks] Reference

"I feel not like chiding her or any one," answered Eveline, smiling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance] Reference

"Are you really chiding me?" she at the same time said in a stern tone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference

He was imprisoned for chiding the emperor, and to escape death feigned madness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sayings Of Confucius] Reference

It ought to be able to do so without chiding and threats from unelected mandarins.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brussels vs. Bratislava] Reference

My son had mentioned that Farouk Mutallab had been chiding him for going to parties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Faith, Family Strife Drove Christmas Bomb Suspect] Reference

She was smiling upon him now, as if he were, indeed, a foolish boy who needed chiding.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Woman] Reference

But there was not so much chiding in the word as a cry of pain, a confession of despair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trail's End] Reference

She received Rosamond's careless chiding for her unconventional behavior with an uneasy feeling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miss Pat at Artemis Lodge] Reference

Up till now his face had been full of an incredulous, boyish bewilderment, half tender, half chiding.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vision of Desire] Reference

As they came near, Duke gave a low growl, but Kate instantly hushed him, chiding him for his rudeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [At the Time Appointed] Reference

'I am sure that I must begin my first letter by chiding you, because I hear that you will not take physic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Children's Book of London] Reference

"And after all this dreadful gossiping how can we face our guests at tea?" the girl continued in mock chiding.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Palace of Darkened Windows] Reference

Nobody is interrupted, even with the chiding of a child; and if the child be stubborn, it is removed elsewhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing] Reference

His mother, between laughing and chiding, would have put him out of the room, but I would not part with him so.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference

Montfanon shook his gray head several times as if deliberating; then forced Dorsenne to rise, chiding him thus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

She had never known a moment's sickness or sorrow; her eye had never met a frown; her ears never heard a chiding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference

Then, chiding his hesitating comrades, he lifts him from the ground, dabbling the comely-ranged tresses with blood.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference

She will never take the liberty of chiding a servant, but will make a necessary complaint to the clerk at the desk.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Etiquette of To-day] Reference

And he let it not rest at chiding alone, but went to the clay birds and broke them all, to the great grief of the children.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference

The administration is chiding insurers for such increases, saying the new benefits only minimally increase insurers 'costs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama to Tout Health-Care Law in Election Push] Reference

What of Obama's chiding W by name when he mocked the GOP for having no new ideas -- "not one" -- to help revive the economy?.    From Wordnik.com.  [HuffPost Radio: Both Sides Now w/ Huffington & Matalin: On Kagan, Gay Marriage, Birthers, Spitzer] Reference

He treated photographer Charles Ommanney (a frequent contributor to NEWSWEEK) as a wayward brother, relentlessly chiding him.    From Wordnik.com.  [George W. Wins The 'Phony War'] Reference

Phœbe laughed loud as she saw the smile on the face of her teacher, but next moment she sobered under the chiding of Aunt Maria.    From Wordnik.com.  [Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People'] Reference

"Men -- many men -- they play cards where boss can see," said Heppel, mildly chiding the lack of faith in his fellow-conspirator.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Return of Blue Pete] Reference

It's planning to adorn entryways and public-transport vehicles with satirical posters chiding people to be clean and well behaved.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comrade Putin's New Russia] Reference

And the stately pines kept whispering and murmuring; it almost seemed as if they were chiding the quaking aspens for being frivolous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters on an Elk Hunt] Reference

And Jacob being angry, said in a chiding manner: For what fault of mine, and for what offence on my part hast thou so hotly pursued me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 01: Genesis The Challoner Revision] Reference