0 to criticize someone or something severely:
Health inspectors castigated the kitchen staff for poor standards of cleanliness.
There was a general castigation of young adults by their elders in that indulgent era as the Me Generation.
The American administration was "deeply troubled" but fell short of outright castigation.
The inquiry will be followed by much handwringing and the castigation of both individuals and local authorities.
It would obviously be wrong to castigate those who have prepared this second edition for not doing various things that would have been very desirable.
Even those whose credentials had been established were castigated as having a 'suitcase mood' or demonised as vectors of infection.
That failure incensed the litigation masters enormously; they not only reprimanded their clients, but also castigated them for having spoiled their own reputation.
Not only did the regime and its supporters (illogically) castigate the protesters for politicising sport, they disparaged their corporeality.
