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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
castigate .
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Examples
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* In a Facebook post over the weekend entitled "Lisa, are you going to shut down my Facebook page for writing this", Palin castigated Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R) for allegedly threatening a radio show host who urged his listeners to sign up as write-in candidates for tomorrow's election.
Sarah Palin: Thin-skinned, smartly strategic (or both)? Chris Cillizza 2010
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Hobbes is just one of many famous philosophers Berlin castigated in his lecture, but it is Hobbes's bleak and elemental philosophy that most conveniently sums up what Berlin and other moralists so revile.
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Hobbes is just one of many famous philosophers Berlin castigated in his lecture, but it is Hobbes's bleak and elemental philosophy that most conveniently sums up what Berlin and other moralists so revile.
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I do not know that, in the terms of classical scholarship, it is "castigated" to the same extent as its rival in point of superfluities.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889
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Otherwise, I don't recall anyone being "castigated".
Home Theater Forum seely 2010
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"castigated" Dr. Tiller's wife, Jeanne, for marrying the wrong man.
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This same Rigali in 2006 castigated Eileen McCafferty DiFranco for daring to be ordained a Roman Catholic priest, accusing her of causing "confusion and discord," charging that if she celebrated a sacrament, she would "further exacerbate the public scandal."
Angela Bonavoglia: At Easter, Church Expels Women's Advocate, Keeps Pedophiles In The Fold Angela Bonavoglia 2011
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Joining the women who have stepped forward to be ordained as Roman Catholic Women Priests and been summarily castigated and excommunicated, the latest victim of the Church's strong-armed resistance to any effort toward women's equality in the Church is internationally beloved and regarded Father Roy Bourgeois.
Angela Bonavoglia: At Easter, Church Expels Women's Advocate, Keeps Pedophiles In The Fold Angela Bonavoglia 2011
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The UNWRA school that Israel was castigated for bombing was obviously not just a simple school.
That UNWRA school Not a sheep 2009
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Sarah ColborneDirector, Palestine Solidarity Campaign• Carmel Gould, editor of Just Journalism, described in your article as "an independent research organisation", castigated critics of Israel for imbalance in Middle Eastern reporting.
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