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Castigate Synonyme:  Informal Castigation I Orthodox Jew Leading

Front It's why I - an Orthodox Jew, and the leading antagonist of the racist alt-right - have been routinely castigated* as a Nazi. Subjectivity rules the day.
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If you castigate someone or something, you speak to them angrily or criticize them severely.
[formal]
Marx never lost an opportunity to castigate colonialism. 
[VERB noun]
https://grammar.collinsdictionary.com/de/grammar-pattern/v-n_1
 
She castigated him for having no intellectual interests. 
[VERB noun + for]
https://grammar.collinsdictionary.com/de/grammar-pattern/v-n-for-n_1
 
Synonyme: 
reprimand
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/de/worterbuch/englisch/reprimand
, 
blast
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/de/worterbuch/englisch/blast
, carpet [informal], 
flame
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/de/worterbuch/englisch/flame
 [informal]   
Weitere Synonyme von castigate
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/de/worterbuch/englisch-thesaurus/castigate#castigate__1
castigation (kæstɪgeɪʃən  ) UNZÄHLBARES SUBSTANTIV
...Bradley's public castigation of the police chief. 
[+ of]
https://grammar.collinsdictionary.com/de/grammar-pattern/n-of-n_1
 
Synonyme: 
reprimand
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/de/worterbuch/englisch/reprimand
, 
criticism
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/de/worterbuch/englisch/criticism
, 
blast
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/de/worterbuch/englisch/blast
, put-down   
Weitere Synonyme von castigate
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/de/worterbuch/englisch-thesaurus/castigation#castigation__1

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