castigation
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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
That’s a tall moral order, especially in a society that invites online castigation.
From Slate • Mar. 3, 2017
But presently she became quiet too, and Emily could empty the water from the late instrument of castigation, and at last light the lamp.
From The White Peacock by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
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