castigate

How To Use castigate In A Sentence

• Like a kid, Mr. Mailer was fascinated by his own naughtiness -- his earliest critics castigated him for the vulgarity of his language, though his editors insisted that he use the word "fug" in "The Naked and the Dead. A Boy's Life
• If mudge were here, he'd castigate me severely for being so disrespectful to sex workers. Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post
• Hobbes is just one of many famous philosophers Berlin castigated in his lecture, but it is Hobbes's bleak and elemental philosophy that most conveniently sums up what Berlin and other moralists so revile. Was Democracy Just a Moment?
• Hail him for the success, castigate him for his failures but, for heaven's sake, do not bring religion into sport.
• It has long been an uphill struggle for new art in Italy, the country Marinetti bitterly castigated in 1909 as a gangrenous land of ‘professors, archeologists, ciceroni and antiquarians.’
• Whenever a politician takes a definite and contentious view on any issue, he or she is castigated for daring to articulate that opinion.
• Otherwise, I don't recall anyone being "castigated". Home Theater Forum
• For Jane Austen life really is all about money and tracasserie, and gossip and dresses, and feeling superior - the very things for which Emma Woodhouse is castigated.
• The malpractices, incompetence, cronyism and corruption he rightly castigates are not a product of devolution.
• Lieberman unappealingly then went on to castigate Obama via a demeaning rhetorical pat on the head by asserting that maybe in the future Obama would amount to something. Amb. Marc Ginsberg: The Moose Bull Party of St. Paul