(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.
Revile
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) To address or abuse with opprobrious and contemptuous language; to reproach.
(n.) Reproach; reviling.
Example Sentences:
(1) Though no doubt he reviles Goldsmith’s racism, he doesn’t detest it quite enough to lend a hand to oust him.
(2) Thank God, then, for The Execution Of Gary Glitter (Mon, 9pm, Channel 4), which vividly envisions the trial and subsequent capital punishment of pop's most reviled sex offender so you don't have to.
(3) read one banner, against the woman whose family is reviled for taking tasty slices of state business and contracts, and plundering Tunisia's wealth.
(4) In any case, the Brits are a notoriously lily-livered shower when it comes to workplace politics, too craven to strike – [note to non-British readers: we're a sorry servile bunch, we don't like it up us] - and as a result, poor John's failed coup has led to him becoming the most reviled union leader in British history, ahead of the excellent Bob Crow, the much misunderstood Arthur Scargill, and Gary Neville.
(5) A conservative, lower-middle-class district bordering the Golden Horn and predominantly inhabited by Turks from the Black Sea coast, Kasimpasa loves Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the powerful prime minister increasingly reviled across Turkey and tarnished internationally.
(6) No one has reviled us like this since [president James] Polk in 1846” – author of the Mexican-American war – “has reviled us like this,” tweeted historian and public intellectual Enrique Krauze .
(7) Andrew Hodkingson, Steve Revill and Ben Avison are founder members of RISC OS Open Ltd and have worked with ARM technology back to its 26-bit days in Acorn Computers Ltd during the 1990s
(8) Baby boomers are now reviled because we seem to have shaped society to suit ourselves: free university education (my student debt, owed to a frugal friend, was £120 when I left); on the property ladder at just the right time (first house in Wimbledon, bought in 1982, cost £31,000); and never had to worry about internships (I’d never even heard of them when I was a student) or jobs.
(9) Fantastic Four director Josh Trank has distanced himself from the critically reviled superhero epic by claiming the existence of a separate personal cut which audiences will probably never see.
(10) Maybe it’s a coincidence that she was a member of a political class that has been reviled for years and with heightened fervour in recent weeks.
(11) They have been reviled as vandals, hooligans and lunatics.
(12) The levy is intended to raise an additional £13m from the much reviled payday loans industry, and will be seen as another attempt by the Labour leader, Ed Miliband , to take the side of the consumer against "profiteering capitalism".
(13) When it comes to President Bashar al-Assad , Syria’s reviled strongman, Barack Obama says nothing has changed.
(14) Bahrainis often complain that the riot police and special forces do not speak the local dialect, or in the case of Baluchis from Pakistan, do not speak Arabic at all and are reviled as mercenaries.
(15) Emerging to the strains of Eminem’s Lose Yourself, a nod to his reputation as an animated speaker, Ballmer spent much of his speech promising fans that the Clippers would move on from the tumultuous reign of widely reviled former owner Donald Sterling.
(16) Politicians are almost universally reviled and government invariably mistrusted.
(17) It would earn him enemies on the left and the right, make him reviled and nearly send him to jail.
(18) That’s why supposedly whorephobic feminists are so reviled.
(19) The attacks on Homs and Damascus targeted areas dominated by Muslim minorities reviled by the Sunni radicals of Isis.
(20) Its foes, meanwhile, revile the UKFC as a classic example of state bureaucracy – an all-powerful quango that presumes to tell businesses what films they can and cannot make.