chiding

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of chide

noun

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; […]”

adj

1. Reproachful; critical.

   “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"!”