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lambast::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
| Type of | criticise, pick apart, criticize, knock |
| Has types | objurgate, tell off, castigate, brush down, chasten, chastise, correct |
Examples of lambast
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Lee will never let an opportunity pass to lambast Top Gear's controversial host.
From the thisisbristol.co.uk
He used his conference speech on Monday to lambast banks for failing to lend.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Critics, however, were quick to lambast the move as a brutal attack on worker's rights.
From the time.com
He owns television stations and newspapers that trumpet his causes and lambast his rivals.
From the economist.com
Front-page stories regularly lambast food companies for making the nation's children sick.
From the economist.com
These message boarders hide behind false names to lambast somebody they have never met.
From the nzherald.co.nz
The answer is they pick on another group of people and lambast them at every opportunity.
From the guardian.co.uk
Some target a particular company while others lambast whole industries.
From the thisismoney.co.uk
It did, however, pointedly and directly lambast an appropriate and well-deserving target.
From the sacbee.com
- Cane: beat with a cane
- Call on the carpet: censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"
- Alternative spelling of lambaste
