Words and phrases that have a meaning related to castigation: (126 results)
Often used in the same context:
opprobrium, reproach, excoriation, scorn, disapprobation, approbation, contumely, condemnation, denigration, denunciation, execration, belittlement, rebuke, vituperation, obloquy, chastisement, vilification, fulminations, fatuousness, criticism, churlishness, derision, ridicule, denouncement, protestation, pompousness, admonishment, priggishness, sneers, brickbat, calumny, praise, critique, tactlessness, ineffectuality, officiousness, abasement, harlotry, pillorying, reprobation, scolding, emasculation, invectives, encomiums, presumptuousness, bootlicking, tirades, wrath, inquisition, effusions, disdain, affronts, savaging, superciliousness, patronization, embarassment, malignity, carping, clownishness, chiding, rejoinder, demonization, lampooning, cravenness, jackassery, depredations, slothfulness, peccadillos, moralizing, imprecation, aspersions, pusillanimity, ignominy, turpitude, ire, bloodthirstiness, mindlessness, imposer, egocentricity, humiliation, placation, browbeating, inanities, obnoxiousness, utterances, insensitiveness, crudities, inarticulateness, boorishness, suppliant, indignance, impertinence, condescension, diatribes, retort, harrumph, dilettantism, repugnantly, putdown, adoration, gaucherie, disputations, reprimand, reprimands, reproof, admonition, buffeting, censure, drubbing, flogging, persecution, punishment, reproaches, chastisements, remonstrance, thrashing
More general:
penalization, penalty, reprehension, reproval
Synonyms:
Also try:bawling out, chewing out, dressing down, earful, going-over, upbraiding
— Adjectives for castigation: severe, self, such, public, verbal, personal, much, terrible, moral, wholesome, severest, more...
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