chastise
verb (used with object)
to discipline, especially by corporal punishment.
self-chastisement
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a word derived from
chastise.
Example Sentences
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The self-chastisement people include in their posts stuns Alexander.
From Slate ● Jun. 9, 2021
He added, with a note of self-chastisement, "The first world engages in navel-gazing and the rest of the world licks its wounds."
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2017
Levy’s crushing sense of self-chastisement looms over her new memoir, The Rules Do Not Apply, which expands on “Thanksgiving in Mongolia.”
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2017
“Lo siento,” Bonita said for the hundredth time, shaking her head in self-chastisement.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 26, 2012
In September, her marriage to Siward excitingly imminent, Sylvia had been seized with a passion for wholesale renunciation and rigid self-chastisement.
From The Fighting Chance by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
