chastise

Example Sentences

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Critics of gold use this fact to chastise the proponents of a return to a gold-backed dollar.

From Barron's • Oct. 22, 2025

Miller often called well into the evening, Dudek said, to chastise him about anything the press had reported that day that had caught the administration off guard.

From Salon • Sep. 9, 2025

The strike comes as other unions have begun to publicly chastise the L.A.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2025

He has been involved with several failed efforts to chastise Santos.

From Slate • Nov. 30, 2023

And in the end the question that always came back to me was this: How could I, of all people, chastise someone for their past?

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini