chiding

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of chide

plural chidings

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; […]

   1832, The Rural Repository Devoted to Polite Literature, volume 9, page 2

   Synonyms: berating, browbeating, rixation, berating, browbeating, chockling, correption, dirdum

comparative more chiding · superlative most chiding

1. Reproachful; critical.

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

   1849, Charles Thomas Longley, The Bishop of Ripon Versus the Vicar of Harewood, page 49

   2 more examples

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

   1592, Joannes Ludovicus, A very fruteful and pleasant boke called the Instruction of a christen woman, page 254

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

   1903, Karl Mantzius, A History of Theatrical Art in Ancient and Modern Times, page 86