Many critics of the company chide the board for letting Mr. Eisner stay too long.

But critics have chided Mr. Chubais for his political expediency.

Some critics chided Denby for confiding too much of his personal life in "American Sucker," others for not exploring it more deeply.

Ironically, Marxist and Communist critics chided him for not going far enough.

Many such critics called him an "Uncle Tom," a "lackey" and a "million-dollar shoeshine boy," and chided him for being out of step with prevailing black concerns.

Over the years critics have chided Wilde for using such melodramatic devices, commonplace in the popular theater of the day, as if a playwright of his talent should be above such tricks.

That critic in the audience chided the program - paid for by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to health-care reform - as being loaded.

He said French winemakers must parlay their diversity, which some critics chide as a handicap, into an asset.

His critics, though they were not many, chided his paternalism in standing up for the rights of employees as well as shareholders.