castigation

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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

But because they went to Mexico City and exercised their protest before the world, they became icons who this month are being celebrated after lives lived so long in castigation.

From Washington Post • Oct. 16, 2018

The anecdotes include the time she smashed an office computer in anger, her refusal to meet with indigenous leaders or gay rights activists and the castigation of aides for the smallest of infractions.

From New York Times • May 1, 2016

I could relate an infinity of such adventures, in all of which we risked our lives on some puerile point of honour, or in pursuit of some impertinence which called for castigation.

From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Gozzi, Carlo