What is another word for chastised?

Pronunciation: [t͡ʃˈasta͡ɪzd] (IPA)

Chastised is a term that can be replaced with several different words that have similar meanings. Synonyms for this word include rebuked, scolded, admonished, lectured, reprimanded, censured, reproved, criticized, chastened, disciplined, corrected, and upbraided. While these terms all have slightly different connotations and implications, they all share a sense of correcting or disciplining someone for their behavior. It's important to choose the right synonym for the context in which you're using the word, as each one can convey a slightly different tone or inflection. However, using any of these synonyms for chastised can help you communicate more effectively and precisely.

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Usage examples for Chastised

And falsehood deserves to be chastised!
"Anna St. Ives"
Thomas Holcroft
He has doubly chastised me since!
"Anna St. Ives"
Thomas Holcroft
This woman remembered Robin Pierce's odd belief and the light words with which she had chastised it.
"The Woman With The Fan"
Robert Hichens

Famous quotes with Chastised

  • 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
  • Yes, Mexico must be thoroughly chastised! Let our arms now be carried with a spirit which shall teach the world that, while we are not forward for a quarrel, American knows how to crush, as well as expand!
    Walt Whitman
  • 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

Related words: chastened, chastising, chastisement, chastity belt, chastise, chastisement

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