castigator
Example Sentences
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It is somewhat harder to understand the universal assumption of our authorities that Euripides was a notorious castigator of the female sex and that the women of Athens naturally hated him.
From Euripedes and His Age by Gilbert Murray
He not only acted the reformer, or rather the castigator, in the fashionable world, but also exercised his talents among the inferior class of people, who chanced to incur his displeasure.
From The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by T. (Tobias) Smollett
“You will be the death of me, I know you will, Master Chissel,” he groaned out one day, when his castigator was even severer than usual.
From Salt Water The Sea Life and Adventures of Neil D'Arcy the Midshipman by C. J. de Lacey
So esteeming it, she had played the part of castigator.
From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Edgar Fawcett
The true castigator of morals has never striven to make his subjects appear disgraceful, but to make them appear ridiculous.
From Hilaire Belloc The Man and His Work by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
