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Discover LudwigThe phrase "is castigated" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is an phrasal verb used to mean "to criticize someone harshly". For example: The politician was harshly castigated by the media for his controversial remarks.
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I can't help but wonder if much of what Victoria is castigated for is her honesty.
Yet the maturing interactive medium is castigated for addressing political agendas.
She is castigated not for being an adulteress but for being a shameless self-publicist.
Even Empty, who is a labor lawyer, is castigated by her father for being too soft and for changing nothing.
In "Theater Games," the drama teacher is castigated by the principal for rehearsing a Mamet play full of profanity.
Nine months later, his name is once again mud across the Labour party and beyond, while he is castigated as treacherous, devious and self-indulgent.
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Democracy advocates here find themselves divided even as Beijing is castigating them as unpatriotic and reinterpreting the law.
Foraker became popular during his governorship for "waving the bloody shirt", that is, castigating the South for the Civil War.
He was castigated as "Robo-Ed".
The American occupation was castigated.
There, too, Muslims have been castigated and accused of extremism.
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