chastening in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

chastening in the PONS Dictionary

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It was the fifth minute of the six added on to an already chastening 90 for the world champions.
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My reply was straightforward: not only would it satisfy the democratic principles bound up with the public chastening of power.
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In the face of another chastening defeat our lofty pretensions embarrass us all to the point of reappraisal.
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Other chastening feedback: people coming to live here had found the locals only superficially friendly.
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It had been a chastening day, the brutality of prison conditions contrasting acutely with the overwhelming beauty of my surroundings.
www.telegraph.co.uk
It has been a chastening experience for the man who has out-performed him throughout their lives.
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Chastening, then, that there are only eight of them after 66 years of building.
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Sometimes teams do make the required changes to personnel, culture and tactics after a chastening experience.
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On an emotional level, restraint had been exercised more infrequently than before, and the chastening crimp of disapproval felt much less often.
www.telegraph.co.uk
Teachers use such public practices to coerce other students to behave by humiliating, shaming or chastening badly behaved students.
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