The word 'chastening' is correct and usable in written English.
It is an adjective which usually describes a harsh and often instructive lesson or experience. For example: "The chastening rebuke shocked everyone into silence".
Related: Alastair Cook hits out at ECB for sacking him as England's one-day captain Now, with the intention to shore up English cricket following a chastening World Cup campaign – and gain revenge for a 1-0 defeat suffered on their last trip to the Caribbean in 2009 – the selectors have once more turned to the experienced right-hander, with the first Test starting in Antigua on 13 April.
For many other Europeans, this experience has been chastening.
It must be chastening for Australia's leaders that their squabbles seem irrelevant.
Selling his city abroad was chastening, the mayor says: most Chinese had never heard of it.
One of those Mr Ménard accused was a Qatari, whom he fired.Even in a Gulf autocracy as relatively liberal as Qatar's, publicly chastening a high official can be rash.
That stopped him from doing much that he wanted.It has been chastening for Ms Rousseff and her party to have been checked in their triumphal progress towards an inherited presidency.
Why else did Abu Dhabi put Dubai through "months of pain and humiliation", if it did not see some long-term gain from chastening its neighbour and strengthening the UAE federation, Mr Davidson asks.
Qatar Airways had a similarly chastening experience with Cargolux last year.
The most widely accepted interpretation of the deal (which allowed them to escape with only minimal losses) is that the authorities, although keen to preserve the idea that trust investments carry risk, were even keener to avoid a panic.They succeeded in that, but not in chastening Chinese investors.
The Tories, natural tax-cutters, are now the chastening voice of fiscal rectitude to the bafflement of many.
