castigate

Object

• government: Will he not castigate the Lebanese Government for permitting that to happen, despite promises to the contrary?
• people: They challenged kings, they castigated the people and they even argued with G-d.
• press: He then threw a giant strop when the press castigated the channel and ratings slumped.
• medium: He castigated the media for betraying the British people by concealing the truth about Palestine.
• school: One person who I didn't know at school castigated me when she found Feeder tracks on my MP3 player.
• church: Copeland castigates American churches for their flight to the suburbs, and American evangelicals for their over-emphasis on individual salvation.

Subject

medium: He shouldn't be castigated by the British media who proclaim him to be a role model who should know better.

Preposition: as

Modifying Another Word

• publicly: Suffice to say that a soap star can be publicly castigated for speaking lines she only read.
• not: Will he not castigate the Lebanese Government for permitting that to happen, despite promises to the contrary?
• severely: Smith has been severely castigated for his alleged paternity of the ` real-bills ' doctrine by many authors, ( e.g.
• roundly: British Gas, the developer, was roundly castigated for having no interest in the effect of their plans on local communities.

Preposition: for

decision: The television cameras did not show any foul being committed and for the next three days the referee was castigated for an appalling decision.

Preposition: by

medium: He shouldn't be castigated by the British media who proclaim him to be a role model who should know better.