castigation
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Like the calm, godly Eye, he registers the good and bad of human nature with moral clarity but without castigation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
“Then use the media’s castigation of you for keeping your mouth shut as a dog whistle to the base?” she added.
From New York Times ● May 25, 2022
He said, especially given the Astros’ behavior during a 2017 season in which they defeated the Dodgers in the World Series, Kelly’s castigation didn’t feel just.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2020
The Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations feared castigation for applying a second-century technology to a twentieth- and twenty-first-century problem.
From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2019
Succeeding his castigation, it was all of a week before Mr Swinton could make appearance upon the streets—during daylight.
From The Child Wife by Mayne Reid
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