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chastisingadjective inflicting, involving, or serving as punishmenta chastising lecture on the proper care and feeding of the dog castigating, chastening, 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 failingsa cold, distant father who rarely paid attention to his children except to chastise them basting, bawling out, berating, calling down, castigating, 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 inflict a penalty on for a fault or crimethe division of opinion regarding the appropriate way to chastise juvenile perpetrators of adult crimes castigating, chastening, 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 |