Words similar to chastised

Example sentences for: chastised

How can you use “chastised” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Indeed, the paper reports that the judge "harshly chastised" the Secret Service for continuing to fight Kenneth Starr on this point.
My brother-in-law then chastised me for being harsh.
William Bennett chastised Democrats for investigating Bush's past after years of protecting Clinton's.
(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.
Clinton also chastised European resistance to the importation of U.S.-produced genetically engineered foods.