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How to use castigate in a sentence

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The most common response was to castigate the reporter for daring to criticize a sacred cow hereabouts, weblogs.
His inflammatory public remarks against British policy in Ireland caused W. M. Hughes to castigate him as disloyal.
A little more discipline in thought would be appropriate before we castigate the bird colonels and stars.
Hail him for the success, castigate him for his failures but, for heaven's sake, do not bring religion into sport.
It would be easy to castigate York for ineptness but their only shortcomings were lack of size and speed.
Mirroring the shallowness of hawks, who condemn peaceniks for their lack of patriotism, many doves castigate anyone who is not opposed to war.
By contrast, Johnson has no reason either to castigate lexicography or to celebrate the completion of his own task.
He was right also to castigate the West's poltroonery in the years preceding the war, culminating in the Munich agreement.
First we have to keep our heads, which means that amid all the emotion and horror it is not our job to castigate one side or the other.
By that I mean that we understand when people do not succeed, rather than castigate them for their difficulties.
This is usually not done in a deliberate attempt to castigate such children for their behaviour, but for lack of an alternative.
They just castigate, criticize and tear down without describing what they would do as an alternative.
We like to somehow castigate the judges, but the judges have taken their decisions because the House has failed to deal with this issue.
It was the military's subsequent investigations that unearthed almost all of the disturbing details and photographs used by critics to castigate this department.
Was it not the Prime Minister himself who used to castigate Paul Martin's Liberals for running roughshod over the will of Parliament?
Yesterday I was amused to listen to the hon. member for Fort McMurray-Athabasca castigate me for supporting political games on the budget.
But she always finds others to castigate for their immorality and selfishness, rarely copping to what she would call a decadent lifestyle if another woman lived it.
The member himself has just attempted to castigate the government for doing sole sourcing to get the equipment quickly.
Gingrich also scored points with the media elite that he loves to castigate.
Although they castigate the Liberals and say that they do not vote because they are afraid to, the NDP members know that they will not form government and they vote against everything.
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Examples from Classical Literature
I thought to castigate a libertine, and I have been, I fear, lacerating the heart of a true gentleman!
The woman grasped a clothes-stick with which she proposed to castigate her niece.
Indeed, the reports of her death in these annals neither castigate Dervorgilla nor characterize her as responsible for the Anglo-Norman conquest.
If only I were not a woman, I might castigate you as you deserve!
Speak as you find, but I've found cyclists rude and quick to castigate motorists for misdemeanours while riding roughshod over the rulebook.
Yet Edsel was too much a loyal son to castigate his father, and internalized the pain as he waited to succeed his father naturally.
Then he equivocated dangerously over a policy because he feared that the Republican right wing would castigate him as a wimp.
Others tried to use the disasters to castigate the sins of society.
It isn't helpful to castigate a patient about his years of smoking when you are trying to treat his lung cancer.
The Italian card sharp had the audacity to castigate Wayne Rooney for the same thing, although Shrek explained he was merely pointing and waving at a passing aircraft.
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