chastened

Los Angeles prosecutors dropped the case, and — two years after stepping off a train in L.A. — a chastened Darrow returned to Chicago.

These books or websites explicitly argue for hierarchical relationships, with women and children chastened to live their lives in unquestioning submission to patriarchal authority.

I don’t feel improved, enlightened or even chastened by a furious man repeatedly cracking a bullwhip in my direction.

He is the head of a party that has been chastened at the polls, forcing him to forge a coalition to maintain power.

The tabloids are for the moment chastened into delivering bended-knee good wishes in large type.