Translations for „chasten“ in the English » Polish Dictionary

chasten [tʃeɪstən] VB trans

chasten

utemperować

chasten

zawstydzić

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English

Teachers use such public practices to coerce other students to behave by humiliating, shaming or chastening badly behaved students.

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But the politicians who have paid those newspapers so much respectful attention might be chastened now.

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But when the moral faculty fails to chasten the technique, her poems tend toward convoluted syntax and a perverse ingenuity of image.

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The combination of profound ambivalence and fierce conviction in their voices, as they opened themselves up, was chastening.

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She showed her waspish tongue had not been chastened by the ugliness of being trapped in her car for two hours by demonstrators.

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Lessons in democratic governance indeed for his now chastened if not silenced critics?

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A somewhat chastening loss in the first test in many respects decided the series.

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Less often, however, to be chastened, shamed and mortified.

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Six hundred million people watch the show, which terrifies and chastens the powerful and rich.

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A lesser man might have been a bit chastened by all this.

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