To rebuke or reprimand someone severely for an offense.
The coach knew he had to chastise the player for missing practice. He yelled, his face red, at the young man who stood with his head down. The player understood he had messed up badly and deserved the harsh words.
The captain's face turned red as he began to chastise the young deckhand. He'd forgotten to secure the experimental bioluminescent algae tank, and now the glowing goo was slowly oozing onto the ship's navigation console. "You call this attention to detail?" he boomed.
The foreman didn't just scold; he had to chastise the new recruit for losing the bioluminescent algae culture. Weeks of work, gone. The harsh words echoed in the sterile lab, a clear reprimand for such a careless mistake.
The tiny hamster, Bartholomew, had once again stuffed his cheeks with an entire bag of sunflower seeds. His owner, a giant with a booming voice, could only stare. "Bartholomew," she boomed, "I must chastise you for this outrageous seed crime! Your cheeks are bigger than your head!"
The goose, after stealing the entire pickle jar, looked at me with pure, unadulterated cheek. My grandmother, a woman whose stare could curdle milk, decided it was time to chastise the feathered fiend. The goose honked indignantly, probably thinking her scolding was just loud squawking.
The coach's face was red as he began to chastise the team for their sloppy play. He’d yelled at them before, but never this harshly. Their loss was clearly his fault for not preparing them better, and his words felt like a stinging reprimand.
The expedition leader, her face grim, was about to chastise the scout for straying too far from the phosphorescent fungal grove. His reckless curiosity had put them all at risk, and her sharp words, laced with frustration, made his ears burn.
The young shaman's mumbled incantation, botched and clumsy, earned a glare that could wither a desert bloom. Elder Maeve's sharp words followed, designed to chastise him thoroughly for his disrespect to the spirits of the frostbloom. His cheeks burned with shame and cold.
The toddler, after painting the cat with yogurt, was met with a stern lecture from his mom. She didn't just scold him; she had to severely reprimand him for his culinary experimentation, hoping to chastise him into understanding that felines are not edible canvases.
The prized miniature pig, Bartholomew, had once again pilfered the entire cheese platter. His owner, suppressing a giggle, felt compelled to chastise the portly swine, though Bartholomew merely grunted, already eyeing the stray crumb on the tablecloth.
The coach's face was a storm cloud as he prepared to chastise the players for their lackluster performance. He would not tolerate their indifference any longer; their careless play demanded a severe rebuke.
The drill sergeant’s bellow echoed in the cavernous hall. He did not merely scold; he launched a furious tirade, determined to chastise the recruit for his slovenly boot polishing, ensuring the offense would not be repeated.
The scout leader, her face a mask of stern disapproval, prepared to chastise young Timmy for leaving the campfire unattended. His foolishness had nearly resulted in a disaster, and her lecture would surely sting.
Barnaby’s mischievous badger, Bartholomew, had once again pilfered Barnaby’s prize-winning rhubarb. Barnaby, thoroughly vexed, decided it was time to chastise the furry fiend, intending to deliver a stern lecture on the sanctity of garden produce, rather than a mere scolding.
The badger, a notoriously fastidious librarian, would periodically chastise the rogue dust bunnies for their unseemly congregating in the biography section, their fluffy forms a blatant affront to bibliographic order. He’d shake a tiny, stern finger, his whiskers quivering with indignation.
The captain, his face a thunderous mask, prepared to chastise the errant ensign. His voice, usually measured, resonated with barely suppressed fury as he detailed the egregious dereliction of duty, a severe reprimand for the young man's blatant insubordination.
The expedition leader, a man of steely resolve, did not hesitate to chastise the cartographer whose miscalculations had led them perilously close to the unmapped precipice. His words, sharp as fractured obsidian, conveyed the gravity of the near disaster, his disappointment a palpable weight in the frigid air.
The foreman's visage contorted as he prepared to chastise the apprentice for their egregious mishandling of the bio-luminescent fungal cultures. Such carelessness, he grumbled, jeopardized weeks of delicate genetic sequencing and could lead to an inter-colony pestilence.
After witnessing Bartholomew's flagrant pilfering of the entire ambrosial fruit tart, the imperious Duchess proceeded to chastise him with such vociferous opprobrium that the very chandeliers quaked, leaving Bartholomew, whose erstwhile jollity had evaporated like dew in a conflagration, quite apoplectic.
The esteemed Professor Quibble, renowned for his disquisition on phosphorescent fungi, chose to chastise Bartholomew for his flagrant misapplication of luminescent spores, declaring his attempt at a bio-engineered disco ball "a lamentable and ignominious failure of mycological endeavor."
Normal — Everyday words worth reinforcing.