What's the difference between berate and chide?

Berate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To rate or chide vehemently; to scold.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) David Cameron was accused of revealing his ill-suppressed Bullingdon Club instincts when he shouted at the Labour frontbencher Angela Eagle to "calm down, dear" as she berated him for misleading MPs at prime minister's questions.
  • (2) The history of events at the end of 2010, from the moment on 4 November when Cable called in the regulators, shows how relentlessly James Murdoch and his PR man Frédéric Michel lobbied and berated the politicians who were trying to stand in their way.
  • (3) Europe has always been there as a fault line, but now it’s front and centre.” (We meet, incidentally, on the day that John Major berates the government for its misleading optimism in the matter of Brexit and the next morning, at my request, she calls me to discuss it.
  • (4) To cap it all, the shadow foreign secretary and Unionist tub-thumper Douglas Alexander hijacked the row to berate the independence camp for lowering the debate's tone.
  • (5) Early in the film, a journalist comes to interview him about his defunct literary career; he berates her for caring (intellectually, Jep is a closet puritan).
  • (6) The appointment of Sir David Walker as chairman failed to prevent a string of shareholders berating the board about pay.
  • (7) The two jostled over who was the closest to Israel, with Romney berating Obama for failing to visit Israel during a Middle East tour.
  • (8) Sir Alex Ferguson berates the fourth official as Nani is sent off.
  • (9) The field is large enough for both kinds of studies and there is no reason to berate investigators as Meiselman does for not investigating the problem he happens to be studying.
  • (10) Billed as an exclusive, the story told how Prince Harry had received a joke phone message from Prince William pretending to be the younger man's then girlfriend, Chelsy Davy, and berating him over his antics in a lap dancing club.
  • (11) The sight of stuffy, bespectacled greying men berating films aimed primarily at teenage girls is as farcical as it is depressing.
  • (12) She was also seen berating a gang vandalising a building.
  • (13) At the education department, for example, he accepted a measure of responsibility when Michael Gove, the secretary of state, left himself open to legal challenge over axeing school building projects and, on his watch at Ofsted , the inspectorate was berated for issuing a number of flawed reports.
  • (14) Naturally I confronted them about it, halting their child's progress with a foot on the front bumper, loudly berating their crass behaviour while impressed pedestrians looked on, cheering and punching the air and chanting my name until Audi boy's parents fell to the ground, clutching pitifully at my trouser-legs and sobbing for forgiveness.
  • (15) Regular readers have been berating me 'below the line' for the lack of coverage of the eurozone debt crisis today.
  • (16) Guest stars included David Beckham, Kate Moss, Robbie Williams and Gavin and Stacey actor James Corden, who in one sketch berated England's footballers for missing out on qualification for Euro 2008.
  • (17) With the SNP poised to win a majority of Scotland’s 59 Commons seats and play an influential role at Westminster, the Conservatives have released a series of attack ads berating the Labour leader, Ed Miliband , for failing to explicitly rule out any sort of post-election deal with the SNP.
  • (18) And this would seem to be the most plausible explanation for why Murdoch the younger, the chairman and chief executive News Corporation Europe and Asia, caused a media sensation on Wednesday by striding across the editorial floor at the Independent newspaper to berate its editor-in-chief, Simon Kelner.
  • (19) While contact was made, Mourinho was incensed on the bench and strode down the touchline to berate the visiting striker as he complained to the officials.
  • (20) Last week my friend and onetime colleague, the UK government's former climate adviser John Ashton, berated the BBC for giving Australian climate sceptic Bob Carter undue airtime in its reporting of the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Chide


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) To rebuke; to reprove; to scold; to find fault with.
  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) Fig.: To be noisy about; to chafe against.
  • (v. i.) To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily.
  • (v. i.) To make a clamorous noise; to chafe.
  • (n.) A continuous noise or murmur.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was also chided for failing to roll out a 2011 pilot scheme to put doors on fridges in its stores.
  • (2) 'We need deeds, not words': bombs fall on Aleppo as MPs debate Syria Read more He also chided the UK foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, for calling for demonstrations outside the Russian embassy in London , saying it was necessary to be mindful of the welfare of diplomatic staff in Britain’s Moscow embassy.
  • (3) Even critical outlets end up promoting the Kremlin’s line by reporting what is essentially non-news Whenever RIA would quote Navalny’s statements in its campaign news reports, as any normal news outlet would do when covering a political campaign, Putin’s deputy chief of staff Alexei Gromov would call the agency’s editor in chief, Svetlana Mironyuk, and chide her.
  • (4) The MPs also chided the health secretary, Andrew Lansley , for peddling a price tag for his white paper proposals that was produced for the last government: "It is unhelpful for the government to continue to cite the £1.7bn figure, as it does not relate to specific proposals."
  • (5) Joe Grice, chief economist at the UK's Office for National Statistics, is always chiding journalists for not loooking at the long term trend in GDP data, and maybe we need to take the same healthy scepticism to today's figures from Japan 9.03am BST Telecoms giants enter tariff battle Bloomberg is reporting that Nokia and Ericsson have told the EU to drop a probe into unfair subsidies for Chinese phone makers.
  • (6) Iran's president strongly chided the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Wednesday, saying it was discrediting itself by siding with "absurd" US accusations.
  • (7) They say she is doing debate prep, but she is just resting.” He also chided Clinton for saying he had entered her personal space on the debate stage in St Louis last Sunday.
  • (8) Ali responded to the gentle chiding, and appreciated room in which to move verbally.
  • (9) Over the past two days Obama has been gently chiding Europe to do more in Afghanistan on the basis that he has recalibrated his Afghan strategy to put more emphasis on civilian reconstruction and the drawing in of key regional players, such as Iran and Pakistan.
  • (10) When I went there I was surprised to see all these overweight people on the streets – but when I came back home, McDonald’s was everywhere and there were all these bigger people on our own streets.” As we chatted, she chided her partner for his fondness for fried food and huge portions, then confided that the worst aspect of the change in her homeland was seeing so many overweight children.
  • (11) Even on foreign policy, the central issue upon which Republicans have attacked Obama and Clinton, as his former secretary of state, she chided her critics for lacking a coherent plan of their own.
  • (12) Another chided her: 'I just want to tell you how uneducated and stupid you came off.
  • (13) As Barbara Castle once chided her old pal, Michael Foot, he’s “grown soft on a diet of soft options,” not quite a pacifist (so he says) but opposed to passing wars and the legitimacy of force in a harsh world.
  • (14) Giving evidence, Murdoch chided Dinsmore for going "a little too far in his enthusiasm".
  • (15) As well as chiding the chancellor, Balls was critical of Moody's, and warned it was important not get carried away with what it or other ratings agencies said.
  • (16) The UK, in a statement to the conference, confirmed its unerring commitment to the ATT, and chided those who might criticise treaty violators because “this could deter others joining”.
  • (17) Then he chides her: "There is a danger of which I would ... warn you.
  • (18) Prickly, protective of her private life and not averse to calling journalists to chide them for what she claims are errors – such as reporting that Hollande dyed his hair – Trierweiler has been dubbed "Tweetweiler" for tweeting her disapproval whenever she feels wronged by the media.
  • (19) That was the main theme of my MacTaggart lecture last year in Edinburgh, in which I chided the government’s consistent running down of the BBC.
  • (20) As archbishop of Buenos Aires, the man who was still known then as Jorge Bergoglio – the son of Italian immigrants – once chided a church full of politicians for being corrupt and not doing enough for the poor.

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