How to Use castigate in a Sentence

castigate

verb
Definition of castigatenext
Synonyms for castigatenext
  • The author castigated the prime minister as an ineffective leader.
  • There’s always backlash; history lionizes you as a hero, but until then a lot of people castigate you as a villain.
    — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2024
  • King also used this instance to castigate the Church of English for their support for the British Empire.
    — Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu, Quartz Africa, 5 Mar. 2020
  • To this point, Trump has found ways to renew the Iran agreement while still castigating it as a disaster.
    — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 7 May 2018
  • And while Trump castigates the press, journalists are not being murdered in droves.
    — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Lizzo castigated Davis and fired her on the spot, according to the lawsuit.
    — John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Aug. 2023
  • An Irish priest who spent time in Maryland, Patrick Smyth, castigated the priests who ran the plantations for their exploitation of slaves.
    — Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 27 June 2023
  • The characters in the movie also take time to castigate others who don't use correct language.
    — Angie Orellana Hernandez, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2022
  • To bring up his perseverance in the face of shortcomings is not to castigate him in death but to cast light on important parts of his legacy.
    — Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN, 23 Feb. 2020
  • More than 200 amassed in the park by 7 a.m. to castigate a planned fencing and closure of Echo Park Lake, which would lead to the removal of people who have been sleeping there in tents throughout the pandemic.
    — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2021
  • Bryant has waged an intense battle with the county, even using her social media cache to castigate the sheriff and name the deputies linked to the photo scandal.
    — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Fox News also added its voice to the fray — but to castigate those journalists praising YouTube for its decision.
    — Andy Meek, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2021
  • When black people color outside the lines, we are castigated, accused of rocking the boat.
    — Rochelle Riley, Detroit Free Press, 29 Sep. 2017
  • Everybody who wanted to castigate us for depicting it hadn’t seen the episode.
    — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 11 Nov. 2022
  • President Trump seized on the Facebook tweet that noted more of the ad spending happened after the election, using it as a chance to castigate the media.
    — Brett Molina, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2018
  • But 35 countries sat out the vote, refusing either to castigate Russia, or to defend it.
    — Time, 15 Nov. 2022
  • When Wylie's colleagues failed to produce a memo explaining their work to Neugebauer, Nix castigated them over email.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 18 Mar. 2018
  • Even the teams at the foot of the table, the ones who have spent the last nine months being castigated and chastised for their every move, are most likely far stronger than their counterparts in Italy, Spain, Germany and France.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Royal experts tend to castigate Meghan and Prince Harry for not following the rules, speaking out of turn, and widening the family rift.
    — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 5 Aug. 2022
  • One man sat on the curb of the county courthouse with a sign castigating the former school police chief: Prosecute Pete Arredondo.
    — Arelis R. Hernández, Washington Post, 25 May 2023
  • Gunn became the prodigal son who never returned, and many English critics lined up to castigate him for running to seed—and to free verse—in America.
    — Matthew Bevis, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2022
  • The Mirror‘s front page similarly led with the Sussexes, but the tabloid chose to castigate all parties for focusing on the royal soap opera amid a cost of living crisis.
    — Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Vanessa Bryant has waged an intense battle with the county, even using her social media cachet to castigate the sheriff and name the deputies linked to the photo scandal.
    — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2021
  • In his decision, the judge castigated both the governor and the Legislature for failing to act.
    — Jessica Huseman, ProPublica, 6 Apr. 2020
  • But Macron has also castigated the protesters as unruly teenagers, blaming video games and asking parents to keep their teenagers at home.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 30 June 2023
  • The irony, of course, is that the film makes a half-hearted attempt to castigate its protagonist for approaching Blackness in precisely this way.
    — Carvell Wallace, The Atlantic, 27 Aug. 2021
  • Twitter users castigated President Trump after reports that part of the southern border wall was knocked over due to high winds.
    — Andrew Mark Miller, Washington Examiner, 31 Jan. 2020
  • And interrupted, and castigated, and told our voices are too shrill and our opinions too forceful.
    — Hillary Kelly, Glamour, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Biden, 81, appeared hesitant and stammered in some of his answers, his eyes cast downward as Trump castigated him.
    — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2024
  • With that yadda, yadda out of the way, Walz revealed that his passion was reserved for castigating the victims of Hamas’s ongoing atrocities.
    — Noah Rothman, National Review, 6 Sep. 2024

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