castigation

Example Sentences

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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

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

Leaving Basanta subjected to the alternate processes of castigation and titillation, let us attend to the fortunes of the poor wife of Swet, alone in the forest, with a child just born.

From Folk-Tales of Bengal by Day, Lal Behari