Thesaurus / castigation
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I came here with the intention of giving you a castigation for your impertinent mention of a lady.
ALONEMARION HARLANDAnd forthwith were summoned the two burly officials whose unpopular duty it was to administer castigation.
JACK HARKAWAY'S BOY TINKER AMONG THE TURKSBRACEBRIDGE HEMYNGAfter this castigation he spent the night in the crypt, fasting and barefooted.
THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CANTERBURY [2ND ED.].HARTLEY WITHERSAnd when that shallow charlatan sneered at him in print, he left to Boileau the castigation that was so thoroughly given.
THE STONES OF PARIS IN HISTORY AND LETTERS, VOLUME I (OF 2)BENJAMIN ELLIS MARTINThe timely castigation had been administered by a police-officer appointed to superintend the funeral.
HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE, NO. VII, DECEMBER 1850, VOL. IIVARIOUSAre there not men above the class of wife-beaters who indulge in fault-finding, "nagging," and other forms of tongue-castigation?
HOW TO BE HAPPY THOUGH MARRIEDE. J. HARDY.I have written a castigation of Brougham for the Leader, and shall be glad if your sympathy goes along with it.
GEORGE ELIOT'S LIFE, VOL. I (OF 3)GEORGE ELIOTThe stick, like Indra's spear, returned to its owner's hand on the completion of the innkeeper's castigation.
TRADITIONS, SUPERSTITIONS AND FOLK-LORECHARLES HARDWICKWe venture even to administer reproof and castigation, where, perhaps, we had venerated almost to idolatry.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOLUME 67, NO. 411, JANUARY 1850VARIOUSThe punishment inflicted is usually a severe castigation, and the destruction by fire of his cabin.
AUDUBON AND HIS JOURNALS, VOL. 2MARIA R. AUDUBONWORDS RELATED TO CASTIGATION
- abuse
- amercement
- beating
- castigation
- chastening
- chastisement
- comeuppance
- confiscation
- correction
- deprivation
- disciplinary action
- discipline
- forfeit
- forfeiture
- gallows
- hard work
- infliction
- just desserts
- lumps
- maltreatment
- mortification
- mulct
- ostracism
- pain
- penance
- proof
- punitive measures
- purgatory
- reparation
- retribution
- rod
- rough treatment
- sanction
- sequestration
- short shrift
- slave labor
- suffering
- torture
- trial
- unhappiness
- victimization
- what for
- abuses
- amercements
- beatings
- castigation
- chastenings
- chastisement
- comeuppances
- confiscations
- corrections
- deprivations
- disciplinary actions
- disciplines
- forfeits
- forfeitures
- gallows
- hard works
- inflictions
- just desserts
- lumps
- maltreatment
- mortifications
- mulcts
- ostracism
- pains
- penance
- proofs
- punitive measures
- purgatories
- reparations
- retribution
- rods
- rough treatments
- sanctions
- sequestrations
- short shrifts
- slave labors
- sufferings
- tortures
- trials
- unhappiness
- victimization
- what fors
- admonishment
- admonition
- affliction
- bawling-out
- berating
- blame
- castigation
- censure
- chewing-out
- chiding
- comeuppance
- condemnation
- correction
- disapproval
- dressing-down
- earful
- expostulation
- going-over
- hard time
- kick in the teeth
- lecture
- lesson
- objurgation
- ostracism
- punishment
- put down
- rap
- rating
- rebuff
- refusal
- remonstrance
- reprehension
- reproach
- reproof
- reproval
- repulse
- row
- scolding
- slap in the face
- snub
- talking-to
- telling-off
- tongue-lashing
- upbraiding
- accusation
- animadversion
- arraignment
- attack
- attribution
- castigation
- censure
- charge
- chiding
- complaint
- condemnation
- criticism
- denunciation
- depreciation
- diatribe
- disapprobation
- disapproval
- disfavor
- disparagement
- expostulation
- exprobation
- impeachment
- implication
- imputation
- incrimination
- inculpation
- indictment
- invective
- objurgation
- obloquy
- opposition
- rebuke
- recrimination
- remonstrance
- reprimand
- reproach
- reprobation
- reproof
- repudiation
- slur
- tirade
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