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castigation

[kas-ti-gey-shuhn] / ˌkæs tɪˈgeɪ ʃən /


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Like the calm, godly Eye, he registers the good and bad of human nature with moral clarity but without castigation.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

As she held tight to the word, stretching it like a castigation, she grabbed a photo of Pope John Paul II and held it up to camera.

From New York Times Jul. 26, 2023

He said, especially given the Astros’ behavior during a 2017 season in which they defeated the Dodgers in the World Series, Kelly’s castigation didn’t feel just.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 30, 2020

The Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations feared castigation for applying a second-century technology to a twentieth- and twenty-first-century problem.

From Salon Mar. 29, 2019

He received a thorough castigation at the hands of the major-domo, which put an end to his knaveries for some considerable time.

From Legends & Romances of Spain by Lewis Spence




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