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Discover Ludwig"chastised" is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it to mean "scold or criticize (someone) sharply" or "punish or reprimand (someone)." Example Sentence: After the student continued to misbehave, the teacher chastised him for his poor behavior.
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She chastised the luckless philanthropist, complaining that he had disrupted the choir's performance and that he might have caused a serious situation, what with the stampeding shoppers and all.
Obama on Friday chastised what he said were "a handful of Senators" standing in the way of passing the USA Freedom Act, who he alleged risked creating an intelligence lapse.
Related: Greece tries to ease tensions with lenders by reshuffling negotiating team Preserving his reputation for combativeness, Yanis Varoufakis chastised eurozone governments for failing to honour their promises and rubbished reports that he would no longer be participating in negotiations to avert the bankruptcy of Europe's most indebted state.
At the Beacon Drive-in diner in Spartanburg, Paul chastised proponents of the Patriot Act for arguing the law would prevent another 9/11.
John Boehner, the leading Republican in Congress, has chastised his colleague Michele Bachmann over allegations she made linking a key aide of Hillary Clinton to Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood.
Killer facts No contest Selecting for the best Testing times Missiles over the moors No winter crisis shock Reprints Related items National Health Service: No winter crisis shockJan 18th 2001Ministers hope that failing hospitals will be chastised into improvement by the publication of performance indicators, and that the question of choice will be made redundant by universal excellence.
And despite her great fortune, she displayed a quirky austerity, pausing on the way home from an elegant dinner to grab leftovers at the kitchen, and hosting soirées at McDonald 's.Teddywas equally frugal and is said to have chastised her for paying an $11m ransom when he was kidnapped in 1983, even though he had spent eight days tied to a bed and had then been stuffed into a fridge.
Now, even business has come to realise that global warming is a problem that needs some response, and is actively lobbying for a market-friendly version of Kyoto to be brought in (see article).Indeed, rather than cheering the collapse of the negotiations in The Hague, most business lobbies chastised ministers for not concluding a deal.
And while Labor once chastised the Howard government for labelling boat people as "queue-jumpers", Ms Gillard herself has since adopted similar language.
The usual form after your party has had an electoral thrashing is to appear on television looking ashen and justly chastised, promising to heed the message of the voters and reform your ways.
The ministry was suitably chastised: one minister was jailed for negligence (though he was later acquitted by the supreme court), and it was forced to hand over some of its rights, such as licensing financial-services firms, to the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS), a newly created banking watchdog.
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