chastised

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Chastised for its ethical failings, the university returned nearly $230,000 to commercial sponsors.

From New York Times • Oct. 29, 2018

Chastised by the media, harangued and taunted by the political opposition, the government was now in danger of losing the support of the middle class.

From Newsweek • Jun. 12, 2011

Chastised, the press now ventures only mild jabs at the junta and completely avoids direct criticism of Pak.*

From Time Magazine Archive

The nurses he Of brain-disturbing Bacchus down the steep Pursued of sacred Nyssa; they their wands Vine-wreathed cast all away, with an ox-goad160 Chastised by fell Lycurgus.

From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by Cowper, William

Thus was the king withoute rodd Chastised, and the queene excused Of that sche hadde ben accused.

From Confessio Amantis, or, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins by Macaulay, G. C. (George Campbell)