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- verb Present participle of
castigate .
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Examples
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Sands, a local attorney and former state representative, has been the target of Democratic Party mailers and phone calls castigating him for his work defending criminals in court.
billingsgazette.com 2008
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Maybe there’s some irony in castigating liberals (who supposedly blame society and circumstances for everything) when they put things in those terms.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Do ‘Family Values’ Weaken Families?” 2010
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Maybe there’s some irony in castigating liberals (who supposedly blame society and circumstances for everything) when they put things in thoseterms.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Do ‘Family Values’ Weaken Families?” 2010
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In case anyone doesn’t check for themselves, the Rockwell link cited by Anthony contains a comment by DiLorenzo again castigating the lifestyles of those at Reason who discuss drug legalization.
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Let me cite one sample: Holmes once wrote that "Canadians have a sour reputation for nauseous holiness and hypocrisy" and, he added, "Our rhetoric too often outpaces our contribution: 'Holmes was equally pungent in castigating Americans whose greatest sin, he believed, was overstatement.
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Senn went on for about five minutes, castigating those who had succumbed to American pressure and damaged the chances of prosecuting the Tinners.
Fallout Catherine Collins 2011
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Within 30 years the U.N. had grown an automatic majority bent on castigating the West and Israel.
The Roots of Europe's Cultural Masochism Frits Bolkestein 2011
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The same group has now turned on Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and is castigating him for not taking more aggressive action to recover the temple.
Thailand Going Rogue 2011
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But unless you have something of substance to say on these issues, castigating someone for the ‘appearance’ they give you in place of actual investigation of the issues involved is pretty much why politics is now little more than a popularity contest for Academic/Business elites.
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Instead, you went directly to castigating the book.
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