castigation

• I see none of Cooper's faults; and I think a proper castigation is applied to the vulgar minds of Scott and Lockhart. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of James Fenimore Cooper by Thomas R. Lounsbury
• If Walter Annenberg is worthy of "castigation," then so is the conservative Pew family whose including Tides and ACORN. —  Classical Values
• If Walter Annenberg is worthy of "castigation," then so is the conservative Pew family whose charitable foundation has supported many a left wing group, including Tides and ACORN. —  Classical Values
• "Perhaps you did wake under this cruel infliction, but went to sleep again when the castigation was over. —  In School and Out or, The Conquest of Richard Grant.
• With dogmatic ponderosity he declared that the Agreement was losing us the friendship of the other Scandinavian countries, that it was not preventing goods getting into Germany, and that it ought to be abrogated forthwith I doubt if any of the Peers present had ever heard anything like the castigation which the Marquis of LANSDOWNE administered. —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 22, 1916

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