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1
a person given to harsh judgments and to finding faults
- even Broadway's most famously caustic castigator liked the play
Synonyms for castigator
- carper,
- caviler
- (or caviller),
- censurer,
- critic,
- criticizer,
- disparager,
- faultfinder,
- hypercritic,
- knocker,
- niggler,
- nitpicker
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2
one who inflicts punishment in return for an injury or offense
- the principal seems to enjoy his role as the tireless castigator of classroom pranksters
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