chastised

Meaning

of Chastise

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I had been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who got drunk - and I would have liked to have the boozing scholars of the Universities wheeled into line and properly chastised for their squalid misuse of what I must ever regard as a gift of the gods. Winston Churchill

My next shall be a more sober & chastised Epistle - but you see I was in the humour for metaphors - and to tell thee the Truth, I have so often serious reasons to quarrel with my Inclination, that I do not chuse to contradict it for Trifles. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Let each man say what he chooses; if because of this I am criticized by the ignorant, I shall not be chastised by the learned. Miguel de Cervantes

The countryside meant grain and herds, and a river meant fish. And if the sky meant anything, it meant a cruel God who took no notice of their pains and chastised them if they sinned. Tanith Lee

The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason. Charles Caleb Colton

I've been chastised for going into mixed martial arts and backing out. But the reason I backed out was the terms - they wanted me ready to fight in four weeks, but you've got to be out of your mind. So I decided to go back to my roots, back to wrestling. Kurt Angle