(v. t.) To punish by stripes; to chastise by blows; to chasten; also, to chastise verbally; to reprove; to criticise severely.
(v. t.) To emend; to correct.
Example Sentences:
(1) The restaurant was already castigated by Channel Four News for serving £4 bowls of cereal in a borough in which thousands of poor families can’t afford to feed their children.
(2) Although she's been performing since 2000 – in the punk-cabaret duo the Dresden Dolls , in a controversial conjoined-twin mime act called Evelyn Evelyn (they wear a specially constructed two-person dress and have been castigated by disability groups for presenting conjoined twins as circus freaks, an accusation she denies) – in her new band, Amanda Palmer And The Grand Theft Orchestra , she's suddenly become a kind of phenomenon.
(3) The popular mood castigated all parties as to blame for the country's troubles.
(4) I'd hope the consensus would be that they were out of order rather than me being castigated for not keeping quiet, or being blamed our host for failing to take the guest's bigotry into account when sending out the invitations.
(5) Equally, there is a striking absence of castigation of the private sector for its massive failures.
(6) Scalise even got castigated for such idiocy by no less than Erick Erickson , whose words and deeds usually sound like he’s auditioning for a role in a WWII movie as the piggy Bavarian Gauleiter pinching at dirndls in between faking a WWI injury to keep from getting sent to the front.
(7) Evaluations and policy papers alike have castigated responses and agencies for their failure to put local responders at the centre of any crisis response, but little has changed in practice.
(8) In a new report released on Thursday, the NAO castigated the NHS and Department of Health’s failure to collect data on the outcomes experienced by patients helped by the Cancer Drugs Fund as a major weakness.
(9) The move is a surprise because the health secretary had previously castigated targets as unnecessary, likely to distort NHS staff's clinical priorities and part of a bureaucratic "top-down" system he intended to overhaul.
(10) His revelations in Peeling the Onion were castigated by politicians and fellow authors; this time around it might be his own children who are his harshest critics.
(11) Earlier this week, the Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh was castigated by the local media and opposition parties for supposedly considering a softening of India's negotiating position .
(12) The Scottish FA has rightly been castigated for the pricing structure both for Euro 2016 qualifying matches and the friendly with England.
(13) At the same time he castigated the Treasury for “undermining” the rest of government with its economic forecasts.
(14) The follow-up Glass Spider tour was castigated for its soulless over-production.
(15) He also castigated those who have set ideas about what a black cultural figure should be, specifically referring to the song I Am a God, from his most recent album Yeezus.
(16) Ironically, it was the radio the lyrics castigated that propelled the Selecter into the top 10.
(17) It seems rather hard to blame Gove for biblical ignorance: a couple of years ago he was castigated for sending every school a copy of the King James Bible.
(18) Museveni has also castigated opposition leaders for dreaming of an Arab spring in Uganda, pointing out that most of these states are no better now than they were before.
(19) While I am an ex-DCLG civil servant, I do write this either in support of my former employer nor to castigate it.
(20) He castigated both the government and Liberal Democrats for not seeking to represent all sides of Brexit opinion.
Chastise
Definition:
(v. t.) To inflict pain upon, by means of stripes, or in any other manner, for the purpose of punishment or reformation; to punish, as with stripes.
(v. t.) To reduce to order or obedience; to correct or purify; to free from faults or excesses.
Example Sentences:
(1) When first chosen, it seemed the most notable thing about Welby was that he had been a successful businessman: a man who understood money and could chastise bankers in their own language.
(2) We may never know what Dimbleby really thinks about Griffin's appearance on Question Time because he is careful to avoid expressing an opinion, although he seems to relish wading into the BBC's internal politics and is one of the few presenters who can get away with chastising his bosses.
(3) In this age of frank public discourse, it ill-befits our newspapers or broadcasters – increasingly given to lurid language themselves – to chastise the PM for language that would make few people blush.
(4) Equally, though, because patriotic pride was so intimately linked to economic success, the sudden downturn was felt, keenly, in terms of collective shame and chastisement – and a fear of a return to the "bad old days".
(5) Chinese state media has chastised Kerry for highlighting US concerns over China’s increasingly aggressive claims to disputed territory in the east and south China seas.
(6) Eventually Howard heard about this, and took to Twitter to chastise us for wasting our time .
(7) In 1989, Murdoch delivered the annual MacTaggart lecture at the Edinburgh TV festival, chastising the British broadcasting establishment for making programmes he claimed were "no more than a reflection of the value of the narrow elite".
(8) Hanlin has refused to name the gunman out of deference to the victims and their families, and chastised the media for reporting his name, saying it “glorified” a murderer.
(9) In a speech seen as revenge for the so-called Plebgate scandal, she accused some officers of "contempt for the public", dismissed the idea that problems in the police were down to a "few bad apples", and announced the end of public funding for the federation; a move more symbolic than anything else, but indicative of the chastising message she wanted to send out.
(10) And last week, he let his exasperation be known on Twitter – first taking aim at the Washington Post for quoting anonymous sources while musing about his future and then chastising NBC’s Today show for producing a political package from a tour he took of an embattled housing complex in Jacksonville, Florida, subsidized by the federal government.
(11) Kenneth Clarke , the lord chancellor, once famously chastised his Labour predecessors for conducting prisons policy with a chequebook in one hand and the Daily Mail in the other.
(12) The maid, Monika, "the prime originator" of Freud's neurosis, seduced him, chastised him, and taught him of hell.
(13) Actually, that’s just what he does, writing (apparently in retrospect from California) about three days in December 1949 when, having been chastised by his school “for not applying myself”, he plays truant over a long and memorable weekend in Manhattan.
(14) In the late 1960s and early 70s when Smith was a prominent and powerful figure in Rochdale it has been reported that some people in the town used to send their unruly children to Smith's home on Emma Street to be chastised.
(15) Obama is fine when speaking and when he smiles but in between he looks like a chastised child, while Romney keeps the message simple - he has prepared well I'm not surprised, Romney did well at this game in the Republican debates although he was a bit brittle at times.
(16) Pickles chastised the chairman of the EA, Lord Smith, saying he would not be wearing a "save Chris Smith" T-shirt if the peer decided to quit.
(17) He admitted he had failed to "treat the police with the respect they deserve" while chastising the officers for making him use a side exit.
(18) Hillary Clinton spent Tuesday morning in Washington being chastised by an unexpectedly stern director of the FBI , but a few hours later she was flying free – cleared at least of the threat of criminal charges and heading to her first campaign rally alongside the commander-in-chief, with only political storms on the horizon.
(19) On the night, Sean Penn chastised him for his taunting of Jude Law; other targets included Nicole Kidman and then president George W Bush.
(20) TPP trade deal: Abbott chastises critics for 'short-term, xenophobic politics' Read more “I defend what we’re doing in the most aggressive way,” Robb said.