(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.
Disparage
Definition:
(v. t.) To match unequally; to degrade or dishonor by an unequal marriage.
(v. t.) To dishonor by a comparison with what is inferior; to lower in rank or estimation by actions or words; to speak slightingly of; to depreciate; to undervalue.
(n.) Inequality in marriage; marriage with an inferior.
Example Sentences:
(1) (“The Dynasty of Bush” sounds like a terribly disparaging term for Linda Evans, Kate O’Mara and Joan Collins .
(2) US diplomats disparaged New Zealand's reaction to a suspected Israeli spy ring as a "flap" and accused New Zealand's government of grandstanding in order to sell more lamb to Arab countries, according to leaked cables.
(3) For the man who created the " specialist in failure " aphorism to disparage a fellow manager, it is obvious how much that would hurt.
(4) I’m hoping that he will actually raise the level of discussion,” Sullivan said, “and that he won’t just disparage everything with a tweet.
(5) There had been suggestions that Cameron had been caught off camera earlier on Saturday making disparaging remarks about Terry to Obama.
(6) On the left is the favourite, Spanish-born Hidalgo, 54, protégée of current mayor Bertrand Delanoë and disparagingly referred to as la dauphine (the heiress).
(7) • The Wall Street Journal uncovers communications between Sony and Marvel discussing a Spider-Man crossover and speaking disparagingly about Spider-Man star Andrew Garfield.
(8) The Republican move appears to be intended in part to highlight Republican disparagement of Barack Obama as the "food stamp president" because record numbers of Americans now claim the benefit, doubling the cost of the programme since 2008 to $80bn a year.
(9) Roginsky said in the suit that she was punished for not disparaging the former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson after she filed a sexual harassment suit against Ailes.
(10) The main finding of this study consists of an interaction between the personality factor anxiety and the feedback variable: High-anxiety subjects prefer test-disparaging information significantly more in the negative feedback condition than in the positive feedback condition, whereas low-anxiety subjects show no difference in preference for test-related information as a function of the feedback condition.
(11) However, one of the channel's British reporters, Sara Firth, appeared to go off message with a series of disparaging tweets in which she said the channel's reporters were engaged in lies.
(12) Axelrod admitted that Democratic supporters would have been disappointed that Obama had not raised strong issues such as the Republican position on women's rights, or the secret video showing Romney disparaging 47% of voters as freeloaders or his record as chief executive of the investment fund Bain Capital.
(13) Rather than honoring their sacrifice and recognizing their pain, Mr Trump disparaged the religion of the family of an American hero,” Collins wrote.
(14) Unfortunately, such methods are often inappropriately disparaged or ignored by epidemiologists.
(15) In addition, the voices of schizophrenic patients are predominantly disparaging, call approbrious names, or are accusatory.
(16) Critics were quick to disparage Obama's achievement as a meaningless compromise.
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Abbott disparaged the fund at the time, comparing it to a domestic fund championed by the former Greens leader Bob Brown , which he wants to abolish.
(18) And despite my disparaging remarks about quite what did Tony achieve from his premiership the fact is if I had to choose between the Blairites and the Brownites I would choose the Blairites."
(19) The Labour leader said he would never disparage David Cameron in the same way, even though he believes the prime minister's policies are "profoundly misguided".
(20) More than 20% of the children--equal proportions of girls and boys--had self-perceptions that seriously underestimated their actual high abilities, and displayed a corresponding pattern of disparaging self- and other-achievement attitudes.