castigated

past tense of castigate
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Recent Examples of castigated Payne also castigated the department for failing to provide any of the documents that lawmakers had requested on June 3. Perry Vandell, AZCentral.com, 30 Aug. 2025 Robert Jenrick, a former Conservative leadership challenger and ex-immigration minister under the last government, has castigated local councils that remove flags. Olivia Kemp, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2025 The big headline from the rescissions effort is that the government will cut off funds to PBS and NPR, which Republicans have long castigated as having a liberal agenda. Jonathan Easley, The Hill, 18 July 2025 Each regime, from the Pahlavi dynasty to the Islamic Republic, claimed to uphold human rights and castigated its predecessors as torturers, only to ratchet up the incarceration of political opponents. Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for castigated
Verb
  • Family matriarch Donna Adelson was scolded by a judge Thursday for weeping in the courtroom after being convicted of orchestrating a 2014 murder-for-hire plot of her former son-in-law, a prominent Florida State University law professor.
    Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Lox's reaction to being scolded.
    Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Captured on live television, rioters attacked the Capitol and breached the Senate floor.
    Chris Boyette, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2025
  • In 1986, Iranian warplanes attacked Emirati oil platforms off the coast of the capital, Abu Dhabi.
    Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Raphinha is not the first player Flick has punished over timekeeping during his time at Barcelona.
    Pol Ballús, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Trump has already punished nations like India with tariffs for buying Russian oil.
    Ross O'Keefe, The Washington Examiner, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Vance lectured Zelenskyy and argued the wartime leader hadn’t shown proper gratitude for the billions of dollars in military assistance the United States has given to his country.
    Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025
  • We weren’t being lectured to anymore.
    Dominique Fluker, Essence, 19 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • In the aftermath of the assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, several Democratic power players mourned him and slammed political violence.
    Ross O'Keefe, The Washington Examiner, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The vehicle then went off the roadway and slammed into a utility box, a sheriff’s news release said.
    City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • San Juan Unified School District Trustee Nick Bloise was formally reprimanded by the board in relation to his behavior during a school site visit.
    Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Geier, who has a bachelor’s degree in biology, has also been reprimanded by the Maryland Board of Physicians for practicing medicine without a medical license.
    Sarah Owermohle, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Many members of the media criticized the team's performance as did supporters, who were not impressed with the Americans, particularly in the first half, when the Koreans controlled the game and scored both goals.
    Michael Lewis, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • In a phone interview, both sharply criticized the map and its impact on Kansas City’s representation in Congress.
    Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Advertisement Macron alone cannot be blamed for the rising far-right, which is on the march across the West.
    Cole Stangler, Time, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Within months of his release, Brown was charged with assaulting his sister, and according to WSOC-TV, even Brown's mother has blamed the courts for allowing her son to be out in the community.
    Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025

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“Castigated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/castigated. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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