(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.
Rebuke
Definition:
(v. t.) To check, silence, or put down, with reproof; to restrain by expression of disapprobation; to reprehend sharply and summarily; to chide; to reprove; to admonish.
(n.) A direct and pointed reproof; a reprimand; also, chastisement; punishment.
(n.) Check; rebuff.
Example Sentences:
(1) His words earned a stinging rebuke from first lady Michelle Obama , but at a Friday rally in North Carolina he said of one accuser, Jessica Leeds: “Yeah, I’m gonna go after you.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bill Shorten backs prospect of Indigenous treaty to ‘move beyond constitutional recognition’ At a press conference, Turnbull rebuked Shorten for his lack of “discipline” on Q&A, which is, after all, the home of reasoned and reasonable political discourse.
(3) Peter Schweizer – whose book scrutinizing donations to the Clinton Foundation has earned sharp rebukes from Hillary Clinton’s campaign and liberally aligned groups – confirmed on Thursday plans to investigate Bush’s past financial dealings.
(4) Howard was rebuked by the race discrimination commissioner, Tim Soutphommasane, within minutes of the interview being aired.
(5) FBI v Apple hearing: 'Apple is in an arms race with criminals and hackers' – live Read more This all comes on the heels of a judge in New York strongly rebuking the FBI and Department of Justice in a court decision on Monday.
(6) Bates also rebuked the agency for misrepresenting the true scope of a major collection program for the third time in three years.
(7) The strong-arm tactics immediately drew a rebuke from the US.
(8) Anyone who stands in his way, from the prime minister to the Labour leader Ed Miliband and grandees in his own party such as the former leader Lord Steel of Aikwood, can expect a withering rebuke from Clegg.
(9) The state department issued a stinging rebuke of the behaviour of the Saudis and their Egyptian, Emirati and Bahraini allies, with the secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, warning them to make their demands on Qatar “ reasonable and actionable ”.
(10) The same refusal to back down characterised his dispute with Norman Mailer, whose attitudes towards women had brought rebukes from Gloria Steinem and Kate Millett.
(11) Those sorts of failures and might-have-beens have pockmarked Kerry’s record, and the rebukes he has faced have at times been scathing.
(12) Their barking drew an entertaining rebuke from Ta-Nehisi Coates to which we cannot resist linking, however: Carlson's descent from reasonably credible magazine journalist to inept race hustler is well mapped territory.
(13) Many titles are designed as a deliberate rebuke to the mainstream, which rarely shows much interest in depicting alternative lifestyles or engaging with social issues.
(14) The prime minister took the opportunity during a Coalition meeting on Wednesday to urge his colleagues to resist talking about themselves, in an apparent rebuke to Tony Abbott and others who continued to comment about the circumstances leading to the September leadership spill.
(15) I’ve watched a lot of cats do a lot of weird and interesting things.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Full speech: Michelle Obama’s powerful rebuke against Trump Furthermore, the controversies engulfing Trump’s campaign have distracted almost entirely from the daily dump by WikiLeaks of nearly 2,000 emails hacked from the Clinton campaign .
(16) In a sharp rebuke to Israel , state department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said: "The remarks of the defence minister, if accurate, are offensive and inappropriate, especially given all that the US is doing to support Israel's security needs.
(17) Or is there a link with president Dmitry Medvedev's statement on 14 July, the day before her murder, that federal forces should be involved in counter-terrorist operations in Chechnya and Ingushetia – an apparent rebuke to Kadyrov, whose own forces have masterminded operations?
(18) Gavin Barwell hasn’t been housing minister for very long at all, but has already elicited a stinging rebuke from his boss at No 10.
(19) Kim Davis draws rebuke from Eye of the Tiger band after song plays at rally Read more “I just want to give God the glory,” she said.
(20) The part played by the two men in the ousting of well-respected chairman David Plowright the following year earned them a stinging rebuke from John Cleese, whose fax famously read "fuck off out of it, you upstart caterer".