castigation
Example Sentences
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I asked Davis to chat for about an hour, expecting bromides and castigations against the powers that be.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2022
She intently marked up everything that came her way, blitzing her colleagues’ internal memos and policy proposals with double and triple underlinings, groaning castigations, and flat prohibitions: “No,” “Very disappointing & sketchy,” “This is awful.”
From The New Yorker • Nov. 25, 2019
With what he called a "collection of dull facts," Campaigner Hoover sought to prove that Governor Roosevelt's castigations of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff were based on ignorance, misconceptions or deliberate misrepresentations.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dozier also gives the floor to big-name guest lecturers whose castigations and confessions are reminiscent of scenes from Nurnberg or a Moscow purge.
From Time Magazine Archive
I thought I observed a tendency in the Man of Wrath rather to gloat over these castigations.
From Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Elizabeth
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