Chiding

//ˈt͡ʃaɪdɪŋ// adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Reproachful; critical.

    "it is better to dwell in a desert Desolate country, than in a house with a chiding and an angry wife."

Noun
  1. 1
    A scolding.

    "The cause I never knew; one would have thought the knowledge of the guilt and misery which followed his former career, and above all the chidings of a wife whom he loved would have deterred him; […]"

  2. 2
    rebuking a person harshly wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of chide form-of, gerund, participle, present

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