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Example sentences for: castigated

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Only a year ago, politicians were being castigated for "herding the elderly into HMOs."
He gently castigated Shaw for indulging in one of the modish foibles of the day by calling himself G. Bernard Shaw rather than use, in the good old Irish manner, George B. Shaw .
Diana, Princess of Wales, is deified despite her misdemeanours (a robust sex life outside marriage) while President Clinton is castigated for displaying natural human foibles while being excellent at his work."
George Wallace is castigated for both his racism and his superficial renunciation of it.