castigation
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As she held tight to the word, stretching it like a castigation, she grabbed a photo of Pope John Paul II and held it up to camera.
From New York Times • Jul. 26, 2023
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
A section recalling American folk songs, all pentatonic melody and bare string drones in perfect fifths, referred to the public castigation of Mapplethorpe’s work by then-Sen.
From Washington Post • Apr. 7, 2019
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
The driver limped back to his seat, in great amazement at not receiving a severe castigation for his awkwardness.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Hell, Xavier Hommaire de
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