Castigate Meaning and Usage

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Meaning:

Verb

- to inflict severe punishment on.
- to criticize severely; to criticize for a fault or an offence.
- to subject (one) to a penalty for a wrong
- to punish or rebuke severely, esp. by harsh public criticism

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Derivatives:

Castigation - Noun
Castigator - Noun

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Use Castigate in a sentence:

1. When the building superintendent began speaking on the PA system, I had a premonition he was going to castigate me for putting the skunk in the air conditioning system.

2. Health inspectors castigated the kitchen staff for poor standards of cleanliness

3. They were strongly castigated for their refusal to act.

4. Before sentencing, the judge angrily castigated the two young defendants for their malicious act of vandalism.

5. When Jake showed up fifteen minutes late and without a tie, Marla castigated him mercilessly.

6. He castigated me for having prepared such a lose report.

7. The teacher castigated the class for its poor performance.

8. Before you castigate me again for being late, you should check your watch.

9. Once again, I had to castigate my brother for his negligence.

10. Will he not castigate the Lebanese Government for permitting that to happen, despite promises to the contrary?

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Synonyms:
admonish, chastise, chide, rebuke, reprimand, reproach, reprove, scold, upbraid, correct, discipline, penalize, punish.

Antonyms:
compliment, laud, praise

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Did you know?

“Castigate” has a synonym in “chastise” -- both verbs mean to punish or to censure someone. Fittingly, both words derive from the same root: the Latin “castigare,” formed from the words for “pure” (“castus”) and “to drive” (“agere”). (“Castus” also gave us the noun “caste,” meaning “social class or rank.”) Another verb derived from “castigare” is “chasten,” which can also mean “to discipline by punishment” but more commonly means “to subdue or make humble” (as in “chastened by his foolish error”). “Castigate” is the youngest of the three verbs in English, dating from the early 17th century, some three centuries after “chasten” and “chastise.”

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Some more examples:

1. The television cameras did not show any foul being committed and for the next three days the referee was castigated for an appalling decision.

2. It was not good enough to castigate him for his sins.

3. Out in the world they marveled that they were found acceptable to others, after years of being castigated as unsatisfactory, disappointing.

4. Though castigated by the Catholic Church, illegitimacy was scarcely an unusual feature of country life.

5. For my lack of missionary zeal, I have been castigated by a few militant atheists, who are irritated by my disinclination to try persuading people to abandon their faith that God exists (while some religious people regard me as a militant atheist intent on promoting worship of unspecified "secular idols").

6. The parents will castigate their children if they stay out too late again.

7. Suffice to say that a soap star can be publicly castigated for speaking lines she only read.

8. They challenged kings, they castigated the people and they even argued with God !!!

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