0 past simple and past participle of chastise --
1 to criticize someone severely: --
She has been chastised by critics who say that children will never learn to recognize and enjoy vegetables if they are disguised.
Charity organizations have chastised the government for not doing enough to prevent the latest famine in Africa.
2 to punish someone, especially by hitting them: --
We believed that we had a moral right to see that right flourished and wrongdoers were chastised.
They are being suitably chastised in the report, as are other councils which either did not make cuts or did not cut enough.
I cannot blame civil servants for not wishing to be publicly chastised for making mistakes, and their first object therefore is not to make them.
The management has been greatly chastised on the basis of a report it has not seen.
The sadness is that the more we help people, the more we are chastised.
Anyone who suggests not conforming with that regime is promptly rebuked, chastised and taken to task.
I may be chastised by some of my own party, but surely a man is entitled to his own convictions.
We have been chastised with not having dealt with them and with having gone around them to deal with the means test, and so on.
