What's the difference between castigation and reproof?

Castigation


Definition:

  • (n.) Corrective punishment; chastisement; reproof; pungent criticism.
  • (n.) Emendation; correction.

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.

Reproof


Definition:

  • (n.) Refutation; confutation; contradiction.
  • (n.) An expression of blame or censure; especially, blame expressed to the face; censure for a fault; chiding; reproach.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If the stadium gets built the way it is, Tokyo will surely be burdened with a gigantic white elephant.” Isozaki’s reproof came after Japanese officials said they would scale back the building’s size, bowing to growing criticism that it was too big and costly.
  • (2) But in fact, Zuckerberg’s reproof was directed at another board member, Marc Andreessen, for an ill-advised series of tweets that appeared to express nostalgia for colonial rule of India.
  • (3) Any follower of the atrocity-ridden war in Syria will accept that Assad’s military machine deserved more than verbal reproof for its continued use of chemical weapons.
  • (4) When compared with the no-comment group, subjects in the reproof condition showed response increments over baseline performance (p less than .05).
  • (5) The performance of 60 elderly volunteers (mean age = 74.5 years) on two cancellation tasks was examined under one of three experimental conditions: social praise, social reproof, or no comment.
  • (6) Furthermore he explains how the revision reproof is to represented to the appeal court in case of violation.
  • (7) I realised I was being more tolerated than appreciated, and it came to me that repeating such a statement – showing off in public what’s done in private – would always bring reproof.
  • (8) Results are interpreted in terms of the possible negative reinforcement, challenge, or informational properties of reproof.