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Definition

to scold or criticize

She said the United Nations resolution amounted to chastising Israel for wanting to exist.

chastising = criticizing

chastised = criticized

It was a minor rule, rather like rudeness, punishable only by gentle chastisement.
Lois Lowry -- The Giver

chastisement = criticism

If we saw him fighting, we chastised him no matter who was wrong.
Ernest J. Gaines -- The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

chastised = scolded or criticized

Mama and Aunt didn't chastise her as they did my cousin and me if we didn't sweep the floor well enough or didn't get all of the dirt out of our fathers' tunics.
Lisa See -- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

chastise = to scold or criticize

Amelia Bloomer's trousers, meanwhile, finally found eager supporters in young female enthusiasts of the newly invented bicycle, and no amount of chastising from their parents, priests, or the press could induce girls to give up their "bloomers," or their bicycles.
Meg Cabot -- Queen of Babble

chastising = scolding or criticizing

But regret is the beclouding of the mind and not its chastisement.
Kahlil Gibran -- The Prophet

chastisement = scolding (punishing)

chastised = scolded or criticized

Jonas remembered, suddenly and grimly, the time in his childhood when he had been chastised for misusing a word.
Lois Lowry -- The Giver

chastised = criticized

They would think him inconsiderate and they would plan to chastise him, later.
Lois Lowry -- The Giver

chastise = criticize

We hoped, also, that he would present himself promptly for chastisement, and he has always done so.
Lois Lowry -- The Giver

chastisement = criticism

Fritz was a very awkward child who had been summoned for chastisement again and again.
Lois Lowry -- The Giver

chastisement = criticism

Lily, he decided, would have to learn that soon, or she would be called in for chastisement because of her insensitive chatter.
Lois Lowry -- The Giver

chastisement = criticism

chastise = criticize

He kept turning his head and glancing back at Jonas until the group leader had to give him a silent chastisement, a motion to sit still and face forward.
Lois Lowry -- The Giver

chastisement = criticism

"In fact," the Chief Elder continued, chuckling a little herself, "we even gave a little thought to some retroactive chastisement for the one who had been Asher's Instructor of Threes so long ago."
Lois Lowry -- The Giver

chastisement = criticism

Jonas said the standard phrase automatically, and tried to pay better attention while his mother told of a dream fragment, a disquieting scene where she had been chastised for a rule infraction she didn't understand.
Lois Lowry -- The Giver

chastised = criticized

He will chastise me.
Shakespeare, William -- Tempest
What was it that made me burn all over with a wish to chastise him severely for cutting away from his best friends, his pastors and masters?
Dickens, Charles -- The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Can I find some fat living where there are no wicked to chastise, and where the work is easy and comfortable?
McSpadden, J. Walker -- Robin Hood

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