Thesaurus / chide
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Racine also has chided Bowser over the performance of her agencies, including the city’s crime lab, an agency rife with problems that lost its accreditation last year.
AS BOWSER SEEKS A THIRD TERM AS D.C. MAYOR, HER SHARPEST CRITIC ISN’T ON THE BALLOTPAUL SCHWARTZMAN, MICHAEL BRICE-SADDLERFEBRUARY 28, 2022WASHINGTON POSTNBA officials also made a point to chide the Knicks behind the scenes — and threaten fines — for repeatedly showing certain instant-replay sequences on the Jumbotron.
IN THE 1990S, THE NEW YORK KNICKS FOUGHT EVERYONE — EVEN DAVID STERNCHRIS HERRING (CHRIS.HERRING@FIVETHIRTYEIGHT.COM)JANUARY 18, 2022FIVETHIRTYEIGHTChildren were chided for taking off face masks or venturing too close to high-touch surfaces.
‘IT FEELS LIKE 2020 ALL OVER AGAIN’: AS COVID CASES CLIMB, D.C.-AREA RESIDENTS TAKE EXTRA PRECAUTIONSMARISSA LANGDECEMBER 18, 2021WASHINGTON POSTEarly one morning the inspector is awakened by a phone call from a man who identifies himself as Riccardino and chides his listener for being late for their appointment, which was set for right now.
MONTALBANO SAYS FAREWELL IN THE LOVABLY QUIRKY NOVEL ‘RICCARDINO’DENNIS DRABELLEOCTOBER 8, 2021WASHINGTON POSTIn her main ruling, the judge chided Apple for limiting consumer choice.
HOW THE APPLE APP STORE RULING WILL CHANGE THE WAY YOU USE YOUR PHONERACHEL LERMANSEPTEMBER 10, 2021WASHINGTON POSTInstead, she chides “reductionists” because they allegedly “dismiss” emergent criteria—such as information, thermodynamics, and consciousness—as “outside of science.”
THE END OF REDUCTIONISM COULD BE NIGH. OR NOT. - FACTS SO ROMANTICSABINE HOSSENFELDERJUNE 18, 2021NAUTILUS“Easier to write about the homefolks, the old folks, cowboys, or the small town,” he chided, “than to deal with the more immediate and frequently less simplistic experience of city life.”
LARRY MCMURTRY, AWARD-WINNING NOVELIST WHO PIERCED MYTHS OF HIS NATIVE TEXAS, DIES AT 84JOE HOLLEYMARCH 26, 2021WASHINGTON POSTMrs Everett forebore to chide, so interested was she in learning if this confession would clear her from suspicion.
IN THE ONYX LOBBYCAROLYN WELLSThen at last they slowly returned, unrebuked, for no man had the heart to chide their daring.
WARRIOR GAPCHARLES KINGIn anger, the king went to the door to chide the guards for having admitted a ragged Jew to his presence.
THE HISTORY OF YIDDISH LITERATURE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURYLEO WIENERWORDS RELATED TO CHIDE
- abuse
- admonish
- animadvert
- asperse
- attack
- backbite
- berate
- blame
- carp at
- castigate
- cavil
- chastise
- chide
- contemn
- cut up
- denigrate
- denounce
- deprecate
- disapprove
- discipline
- disparage
- exprobate
- find fault with
- get after
- impugn
- incriminate
- judge
- knock
- lecture
- look askance
- ostracize
- pick apart
- pull apart
- read out
- rebuff
- rebuke
- remonstrate
- reprehend
- reprimand
- reproach
- reprove
- scold
- take to task
- tear apart
- tell off
- upbraid
- abase
- admonish
- afflict
- berate
- call down
- castigate
- chastise
- chide
- cow
- curb
- discipline
- exprobate
- fulminate against
- have on the carpet
- humble
- objurgate
- penalize
- punish
- rake over the coals
- rebuke
- reprehend
- repress
- reprimand
- reproach
- reprove
- restrain
- scold
- scourge
- soften
- subdue
- take to task
- tame
- tongue-lash
- try
- upbraid
- adjudge
- belittle
- blow whistle on
- call down
- castigate
- censure
- chide
- come down on
- criticize
- damn
- decry
- denounce
- denunciate
- deprecate
- depreciate
- disapprove
- disparage
- doom
- find fault with
- find guilty
- frame
- hang something on
- judge
- knock
- lay at one's door
- let have it
- name
- pass sentence on
- pin it on
- point finger at
- pronounce
- proscribe
- punish
- put away
- put down
- reprehend
- reproach
- reprobate
- reprove
- send up
- send up the river
- sentence
- skin
- thumbs down on
- upbraid
- alters
- ameliorates
- amends
- betters
- changes
- clean up
- clean up act
- cures
- debugs
- doctors
- does over
- edits
- emends
- fiddles with
- fixes up
- gets with it
- goes over
- helps
- improves
- launders
- makes over
- makes right
- makes up for
- mends
- pays dues
- picks up
- polishes
- puts in order
- reclaims
- reconstructs
- rectifies
- redresses
- reforms
- regulates
- remedies
- remodels
- reorganizes
- repairs
- retouches
- reviews
- revises
- rights
- scrubs
- sets right
- sets straight
- shapes up
- straightens out
- touches up
- turns around
- upgrades
- animadvert on
- bash
- blame
- blast
- blister
- carp
- castigate
- censure
- chastise
- chide
- clobber
- come down on
- condemn
- cut down
- cut to bits
- cut up
- denounce
- denunciate
- disparage
- do a number on
- dress down
- excoriate
- find fault
- fluff
- fulminate against
- fustigate
- give bad press
- hit
- jump on
- knock
- lambaste
- nag at
- nit-pick
- pan
- pick at
- rap
- reprehend
- reprimand
- reprobate
- reprove
- rip
- roast
- scathe
- scorch
- skin
- skin alive
- slam
- slog
- slug
- take down
- trash
- trim
- zap
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