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
The kids table can be less a castigation and more an opportunity: to solve issues on your own, away from the social obligations and droll etiquette of adults.
From Salon ● Nov. 24, 2022
“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
So the castigation and exclusion of so many of us feels jarring.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 20, 2021
The intercession of friends secured for the culprit immunity from arrest for libel, but in the newspapers of his city he received such a castigation as he will not soon forget.
From Abraham Lincoln: Was He A Christian? by John B. Remsburg
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