Chiding

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, and searched all my household stuff? What hast thou found of all the substance of thy house? lay it here before my brethren, and thy brethren, and let them judge between me and thee.

And he called the name of that place Temptation, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and for that they tempted the Lord, saying: Is the Lord amongst us or not?

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; […]

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

And the said Mr. Hale did not say this in a chiding, quarrelsome, or brawling manner.

How expressive this little parenthesis: "Sakuntalâ makes a chiding gesture with her finger"!