chastened

past tense of chasten
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Recent Examples of chastened Many have read Gödel and come away chastened by the limits of certainty—without concluding, as Richardson did, that the logical next step was to spend your life playing cards and paying prostitutes. Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chastened
Verb
  • Rossi protested his innocence and claimed he was punished so strictly because of his prominent role in Italian football, to make an example.
    Michael Cox, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Pickens' antics were on full display in Dallas’ 44-22 win over the Washington Commanders last week, and the NFL has punished him accordingly.
    Michael Gallagher, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • There was this huge peak between 2000 and about 2018 where there was a decentralized anti-Fascist movement that’s responsible for Richard Spencer going home, for Matthew Heimbach being humiliated.
    Fiction Non Fiction, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
  • LaBella alleges that she was traumatized and humiliated by the experience.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The Palestinian Authority, long discredited in the West Bank, has been absent in Gaza.
    Mohammed R. Mhawish, New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Colorado contends its law simply regulates licensed therapists by banning a practice that major medical groups have deemed harmful and discredited.
    Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • French authorities have arrested several suspects after a frantic manhunt for the men who staged a spectacular daytime heist at the Louvre museum that gripped the world and embarrassed the government in Paris.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2025
  • The Revolution provided a brief scare through a 59th-minute goal from Dor Turgeman, who embarrassed a defender before curling home a spectacular effort, but Inter Miami broke the tie almost immediately after the strike that made the score 2-1.
    Franco Panizo, Miami Herald, 5 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • There is little evidence that Ozer has been humbled.
    Steve Belanger, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2025
  • And no play better epitomized this possibly new, perhaps even humbled Kuminga than his offensive rebound with one minute to play in the game.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2025

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“Chastened.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chastened. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.

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