What is another word for chides?

Pronunciation: [t͡ʃˈa͡ɪdz] (IPA)

Chides is a word that means to scold or reprimand someone in a harsh or stern manner. Some synonyms for chides include reprimands, admonishes, rebukes, censures, admonitions, criticisms, and castigations. Other words that can be used instead of chides include upbraids, reproaches, berates, lectures, nags, and chatters. All of these words convey a sense of disapproval or dissatisfaction with someone's actions or behavior. While chides might be used in a specific context, using a variety of synonyms can add variety and nuance to one's writing and speech.

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Usage examples for Chides

Daland, waking from his sound slumbers, suddenly perceives the anchored vessel, and chides the drowsy steersman, who has not warned him of its approach.
"Stories of the Wagner Opera"
H. A. Guerber
She gazes upon them with the wild eyes of an animal at bay, until Gurnemanz comes to her rescue, and chides the youths.
"Stories of the Wagner Opera"
H. A. Guerber
We know her when she passes by, Whom no one loves or chides or greets- The woman with the cold, bright eye- Our sister of the streets.
"Pan and Aeolus: Poems"
Charles Hamilton Musgrove

Famous quotes with Chides

  • A historian of science is not expected to be a scientist, but he is expected to have some basic knowledge of the scientific alphabet. Similarly, a historian of Orientalism—that is to say, the work of historians and philologists—should have at least some acquaintance with the history and philology with which they were concerned. Mr. Said shows astonishing blind spots. He asserts [in his book ] that “Britain and France dominated the Eastern Mediterranean from about the end of the seventeenth century on [sic]” (p. 17)—that is, when the Ottoman Turks who ruled the eastern Mediterranean were just leaving Austria and Hungary. This rearrangement of history is necessary for Mr. Said’s thesis; others are apparently due to unpolemical ignorance—for example his belief that Muslim armies conquered Turkey before North Africa (p. 59)—that is to say, that the eleventh century came before, the seventh, and that Egypt was “annexed” by England (p. 35). Egypt was indeed occupied and dominated, but was never annexed or directly administered. In another remarkable passage, he chides the German philosopher Friedrich Schlegel because, even after he “had practically renounced his Orientalism, he still held that Sanskrit and Persian on the one hand and Greek and German on the other had more affinities with each other than with the Semitic, Chinese, American, or African languages” (p. 98). Mr. Said seems to object to this view—which would not be challenged by any serious philologist—and regards it as a pernicious residue of Schlegel’s former Orientalism
    Edward Said
  • [T]he magician emerges from bed and we recount our tale. Her response lacks gratitude: stammering furiously, she chides us for the damage to her lawns and flowerbed. The boy is smacked; I am Spasmed; we both spend the day with nail-clippers attending to the damage to the garden.
    Jonathan Stroud
  • At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves, and re-resolves; then dies the same.
    Edward Young

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