Gail Collins

Now my poor hometown is being castigated as the center of an IRS scandal. Humble workers at the Cincinnati office targeted Tea Party groups and other conservative organizations for special scrutiny when those groups applied for tax-exempt status. There's no conceivable excuse for that. It was deeply, deeply wrong.

American Journalist

Sarah Lancashire

I think going to university, getting married, having children, and then having the choice to stay at home to raise those children is a very valid one for women and they shouldn't be castigated for it. It's a great job. Not many men would do it.

British Actress

Michelle Dean

Television was not cool among the young people of my era, the last years of the '90s and the early '00s. It was not just old people who'd castigate you for watching anything but public television. We young people scoffed at each other about it.

Nancy Pearcey

Pro-lifers have long been castigated for bringing private values into the public square. But actually it is the pro-abortion position that is based on merely personal views and values.

American Author

Richard Eyre

Theatre is castigated for wallowing in self-indulgence, but it's curiously unsentimental. You simply have to move on. Everything passes. Something in me likes that.

British Director

Jeremy Irons

Lolita' was a great wound in the side for me. I stuck my neck out maybe further than I should have and castigated the studio for not getting behind it.

English Actor

Mitch Daniels

No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry favor with some Americans by castigating others.

American Politician

Ed Davey

Jeremy Corbyn's policy on Brexit has failed to unite his own Labour MPs and has been rightly castigated for lacking any clear course.

British Politician

James Lasdun

The nature of fiction is to make one distrustful of any character who lectures and castigates.

British Writer

Diana Rigg

I've been utterly and completely castigated from time to time.

'Castigate' indicates a very strong level of criticism that is more intense than simply suggesting improvement.

Severity Level

Using 'castigate' can carry an emotional impact, suggesting disappointment or disapproval from the speaker.

Emotional Weight

'Castigate' often implies that the criticism happens openly, in a public setting, not privately.

Public vs Private

When using 'castigate' in the context of punishment, it implies the aim is to correct the behavior.

Intent to Reform

'Castigate' suggests that the person being punished has done something significantly wrong.

Strong Disapproval

'Castigate' often includes a moral judgment, conveying that the person's actions were not just incorrect, but wrong.

Moral Undertone

 So what you are seeing now in China is a very similar process to the one that we had in Britain during the Industrial Revolution, especially the transition from the first to the second. And to be castigating China