castigator

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Sinclair Lewis � son and grandson of doctors, onetime reporter, now 40 and the Nation's semiofficial castigator, � may be somewhat rosily seen as he has projected himself in Lie-Hunter Arrowsmith.

From Time Magazine Archive

The poet was a severe castigator, and was never less forbearing with the lash than when these impostors of his day were under his hand for flagellation.

From The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. by Various

The true castigator of morals has never striven to make his subjects appear disgraceful, but to make them appear ridiculous.

From Hilaire Belloc The Man and His Work by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

Johnson, Goldsmith's growling monitor and unsparing castigator in times of heedless levity, stood by him at present with that protecting kindness with which he ever befriended him in time of need.

From Oliver Goldsmith A Biography by Irving, Washington

Though he was useful as a castigator of the vices of his age, there was nothing very amiable in the rancorous and uncharitable spirit in which he performed his office.

From The Comic History of Rome by Becket, Gilbert Abbott ?