castigation
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“Then use the media’s castigation of you for keeping your mouth shut as a dog whistle to the base?” she added.
From New York Times • May 25, 2022
So the castigation and exclusion of so many of us feels jarring.
From Washington Post • Aug. 20, 2021
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
It is certain that Miss Baillie was hurt and offended by the uncourteous castigation inflicted on her by her countryman, rather than convinced by it that her notions were wrong.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various
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