Usage examples (28)

• Because he is a detective-defender, but not a detective-castigator.
• Al Gore, newly-minted media castigator, gnashing his teeth, throwing coiled fists against a boiling sky, appalled -- appalled!
• His self image as a tough castigator, bully-in-chief, supreme forajido in a land of plenty will shatter along with his psyche.
• Minute after minute the castigator laboured away in his vocation, until finally the victim collapsed, and rolling over, lay like a log in a pool of blood, and was then...