castigating Definition

punishing, criticizing, chastising, lambasted, chiding, excoriated, ridiculing, condemning, pilloried, denouncing, berating, rebuking, vilifying, blaming, upbraided, deriding, lambast, accusing, decrying, reviling, scold, praising, belittling, assailed, admonishing, bemoaning, mocking, censuring, scorning, demonizing, lauding, reprimanding, pontificating, reproached, fulminated, goading, flaying, lamenting, savaging, denigrating, trashing, railed, insinuating, lampooning, reproved, lionizing, apologizing, parroting, faulted, impugning, commending, bashing, ranting, lashed, eulogizing, inveighing, crucifying, blasted, criticising, haranguing, slating, critiquing, deploring, disparaged, persecuting, carping, scandalizing, harped, maligning, blathered, dissing, espousing, hectoring, lecturing, gloating, pussyfooting, slandering, bewailing, extolling, repudiating, smearing, excusing, deprecating, skewering, trumpeting, condoning, indicting, ignoring, chastize, slamming, congratulating, expounding, slighting, justifying, grovelled, disgracing, disassociating, slagging, opining, disowning,