0 to criticize someone or something severely: --
Health inspectors castigated the kitchen staff for poor standards of cleanliness.
Tennyson's narratives encrypt paternal power in fraternal orders with an ambivalence that concurrently mourns and castigates paternal privilege enacted within fraternal spaces.
Turshen castigates market failures in the private sector yet ignores government failures in the public sector.
Paul castigated this particular ideal of wisdom as folly.
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?
Their justices refused to believe that human rights violations had occurred, and castigated those who thought otherwise.
Some castigate the hubris of some of its claims.
At that time, for instance, one journalist castigated both men for failing to set aside their personal ambition to pursue the goal of national defence.
Seething at such obvious inequities of capitalism, they castigated the prosperous for ' ' greed ' ' and ' ' workaholism ' '.
