castigation
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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
This includes castigation, and if you issue a sharp “no!” or “quiet,” then you have already lost this battle of wits.
From Slate • Jan. 10, 2019
So the next day after my disciplinary castigation, Joe walked aft in his watch below demanding audience of the skipper.
From The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life by Bullen, Frank T.
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