Verb (used with object) : Age has chastened his violent temper.    From Dictionary.com. 

Wesa emerged chastened from the operation, U.S. officials said.    From Wordnik.com.  [U.S. operations in Kandahar push out Taliban] Reference

Keeping this new frontier chastened is a daunting task but the potential benefits make the effort essential.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » ThinkFast: April 22, 2006] Reference

Harvard Business School Professor John Quelch has called the chastened former indiscretionary spenders "simplifiers".    From Wordnik.com.  [Peggy Drexler: The End of Normal: The New Simplicity -- Real or Reaction?] Reference

Well stated, upper left, yet isn't it sad that we have to link "chastened" with "weakened".    From Wordnik.com.  [McCain: Every "Sensible" Observer Favors Giving Escalation A Chance] Reference

Gros told him that it was like Rubens, with more correctness of form -- Rubens "chastened" was the word.    From Wordnik.com.  [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, March, 1896] Reference

Bergson is a kind of chastened and spiritualized Herbert Spencer.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Noon of Science] Reference

Will the New Calvinists reject this new "chastened" attitude towards the Truth of Scripture?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christian Research Net] Reference

At a press conference today, Lieberman said that he wasn't "chastened" by his colleagues at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress] Reference

We adopt a "chastened" correspondence-theory of truth that is less triumphalistic than that of some in the older evangelicalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christian Research Net] Reference

Beckett on stage at the Jazz à Vienne festival, in France, in July 2000; his sound was described as 'a kind of chastened happiness '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

"chastened" so they can then feel good about welcoming him back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

Her only levity is patience, the sport of truly chastened things.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reluctant Poet Laureate] Reference

Though MacDonald is a chastened man, he may be tougher on the president.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Road To Repentance] Reference

(In a follow-up e-mail, she pronounced herself chastened and apologized.).    From Wordnik.com.  [PostPoints tip: Don't prove Godwin's law] Reference

Washington also has a newly chastened sense of its ability to shape events.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Alarms For Uncle Sam] Reference

Government regulators and ratings agencies were supposed to be chastened, too.    From Wordnik.com.  [Have We Learned Nothing?] Reference

A chastened public will turn away from titillation -- or so the thinking goes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Was The Press To Blame?] Reference

Afterward, a chastened Senator Franken walked to Mr. McConnell's office to apologize.    From Wordnik.com.  [Al Franken's Gaffes] Reference

The irrepresible Brill seems chastened and has accepted full blame for the its failure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Requiem For A Dream] Reference

Conservative politicians in the Likud bloc, accused of stirring up hate, will be chastened.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can Peace Survive?] Reference

He emerged a bit chastened and he decided to adjust his tactics to be less confrontational.    From Wordnik.com.  [China Clamps Down On Nongovernmental Organizations] Reference

I believe that wherever the human mind recognizes a rounded, chastened, rich, and outspoken.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference

No use "" driving yourself crazy over possessions, '' says a chastened and emancipated Croker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Wolfe's Rooftop Yawp] Reference

Both the Americans and Asians have a newly chastened sense of Washington's ability to shape events.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncle Who?] Reference

In the '90s, chastened CIA directors were compelled to impose tight new rules on the recruiting of assets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shadow Struggle] Reference

Briefly chastened, the press will carp again, the leakers will leak, the special interests will continue to slice up the pie.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rewards Of Leadership] Reference

The president, still smarting from the collapse of Hillary Clinton's ambitious plan, is too chastened to highlight the subject.    From Wordnik.com.  [What They Dodged] Reference

The Democrats say that Clinton would maintain the chastened, centrist tenor he and Al Gore have had since the 1994 GOP landslide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Next Year's Model] Reference

Before the Senate Armed Services Committee last Friday, a chastened Rumsfeld warned that more photos and even videos will surface.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Good Defense] Reference

Several months later, the winners and losers having settled and moved on, a chastened, less-burdened company emerges from bankruptcy.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Defense of Detroit] Reference

His most vocal enemies are chastened brokers and fund managers, who bitterly protest they are the victims of his political ambitions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Keeping A Close Eye On Wall Street] Reference

After the secret leaks, the chastened Mammoths turn their focus from winning to cheering up Bruce, without ever letting on that they know.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five Best] Reference