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castigate
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  • "I feel as thod I sure be castigate or chastise for the wronge I've did..." (sic)  (source)
  • So important was this road in the massive hillbilly migration that Dwight Yoakam penned a song about northerners who castigated Appalachian children for learning the wrong three R's: "Reading, Rightin', Rt.†  (source)
  • You've never done anything worth castigating yourself this way.†  (source)
    castigating = criticizing severely
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  • Other lucky children might merely be thrashed for their sins, but we Price girls are castigated with the Holy Bible.†  (source)
    castigated = criticized severely
  • But his enemies and disbelievers said, this Gotama was a vain seducer, he would spent his days in luxury, scorned the offerings, was without learning, and knew neither exercises nor self-castigation.†  (source)
    castigation = severe criticism
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
  • It left an army of thunderbolt throwers to castigate the mountains for slowing it down, but the punishment was beautiful.†  (source)
  • Whereupon said I: "Master, who are those People, whom the black air so castigates?"†  (source)
    castigates = criticizes severely
  • Adams then moved to Gedney, castigating the officer for his actions in boarding and seizing the Amistad.†  (source)
    castigating = criticizing severely
  • The Lightwoods weren't given to corporal punishment—quite a change from being brought up by Valentine, who'd concocted all sorts of painful castigations to encourage obedience.†  (source)
  • Another chapter dealt with the IPO of Telia stock—it was the book's most jocular and ironic section, in which some financial writers were castigated by name, including one William Borg, to whom Blomkvist seemed to be particularly hostile.†  (source)
    castigated = criticized severely
  • "And is that all you did about it, Foretopman?" gruffly demanded another, an irascible old fellow of brick—colored visage and hair, and who was known to his associate forecastlemen as Red Pepper; "Such sneaks I should like to marry to the gunner's daughter!" by that expression meaning that he would like to subject them to disciplinary castigation over a gun.†  (source)
    castigation = severe criticism
  • Then what ideas did Mencken hold that made a newspaper like the Commercial Appeal castigate him publicly?†  (source)
  • Wherefore I said, "Master, who are those folk whom the black air so castigates?"†  (source)
    castigates = criticizes severely
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