Words similar to chastised

Example sentences for: chastised

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Maureen Dowd chastised Republicans for protecting Bush's past after years of investigating President Clinton's.
My brother-in-law then chastised me for being harsh.
Indeed, the paper reports that the judge "harshly chastised" the Secret Service for continuing to fight Kenneth Starr on this point.
The state office on domestic violence has pointedly agreed, warning that the ruling could cause abused women to hesitate in bringing their plight before the courts for fear of being chastised for their trouble.
(Violence among theatrical people, on the other hand, can be entertainingly savage, cf, All About Eve .) In all the hullabaloo about violence in popular entertainment, movies and television were often chastised, the stage never.