chastened

I don’t feel improved, enlightened or even chastened by a furious man repeatedly cracking a bullwhip in my direction.

He is the head of a party that has been chastened at the polls, forcing him to forge a coalition to maintain power.

It will at least clear up one thing: The justice has not been chastened by recent events and will carry forward his nihilistic attitude into the explosive final weeks of this term.

It will, at least, clear up one thing: The justice has not been chastened by recent events, and will carry forward his nihilistic attitude into the explosive final weeks of this term.

The tabloids are for the moment chastened into delivering bended-knee good wishes in large type.