The Only Use of
reprimand
in
The Lottery, by Jackson
- School was recently over for the summer, and the feeling of liberty sat uneasily on most of them; they tended to gather together quietly for a while before they broke into boisterous play, and their talk was still of the classroom and the teacher, of books and reprimands.
p. 4.0reprimands = criticisms
Definition:
to criticize someone by telling them what they did wrong -- often in a formal manner