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castigatingadjective inflicting, involving, or serving as punishmenta castigating task that succeeds in doing nothing more than making the lives of the inmates miserable chastening, chastising, correcting, correctional, corrective, disciplinary, disciplining, penal, penalizing, punitive retaliative, retaliatory, retributive, retributory, revengefulvengeful, wrathful nonpunitive compensatoryacquitting, exculpating, exculpatory, exonerating, vindicatingabsolving, condoning, pardoning, remittingcommuting, reprieving to criticize (someone) severely or angrily especially for personal failingscastigated him for his constant tardiness basting, bawling out, berating, calling down, chastising, chewing out, dressing down, flaying, hammering, jawing, keelhauling, lambasting, lecturing, ragging, railing (at or against), ranting (at), rating, reaming (out), rebuking, reprimanding, reproaching, scolding, scoring, tongue-lashing, upbraiding admonishing, chiding, remonstrating (with), reprovingabusing, assailing, attacking, bad-mouthing, blaming, blasting, censuring, condemning, criticizing, crucifying, denouncing, dissing(slang), excoriating, faulting, haranguing, knocking, lacing (into), lashing, panning, reprehending, reviling, scourging, slamming, vituperatingbelittling, disparaging, mocking, putting downridiculing, scoffing, scorning laying into, reading the riot act (to), taking to task approving, endorsing(also indorsing), sanctioningextolling, lauding, praising to criticize harshly and usually publiclya newspaper editorial castigating the city council for approving the project in the first place abusing, assailing, attacking, bashing, belaboring, blasting, excoriating, jumping (on), lambasting, potshotting, savaging, scathing, slamming, trashing, vituperating berating, haranguing, harassing, harrying, reviling, scolding, whippingblaspheming, cursing, execrating, imprecating, profaningaffronting, insulting, slurringaspersing, bad-mouthing, belittling, blackguarding, disparaging, putting downlibeling(or libelling), slandering, traducing, vilifyingchastising, chiding, criticizing, lacing (into), rebuking, reprimandingfulminating, lashing (out) beating up on, lighting into, sailing into, tying into acclaiming, commending, complimenting, hailing, lauding, praising to inflict a penalty on for a fault or crimea judge who believes in castigating criminals to the full extent of the law chastening, chastising, correcting, disciplining, penalizing, punishing assessing, charging, docking, fining, imposing, levying, mulctingconvicting, sentencingcondemning, damning, denouncingcriticizing, keelhauling, rebuking, reprimanding, reprovingwreaking excusing, pardoning, sparing forfeitinggetting off, ransoming, releasingcommuting, reprievingabsolving, acquitting, exculpating, exonerating, vindicating |