0 present participle of castigate
1 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.
Isn't it odd that it went on and on being recycled in a city that librettists had a habit of castigating for its easily jaded palate?
It is no good castigating our motor industry if at the same time we expect it to start 10 yards behind the scratch-mark.
He has dragged in as a witness from time to time things which he himself has begun by castigating as hearsay.
I do not think that they have any grounds for castigating us on that subject.
