brickbats

Example Sentences

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That 2,700-page doorstop, the fruit of 750 “editor-years,” was greeted with brickbats on its appearance in 1961.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 14, 2025

Roos also expressed admiration: “Every day people around him were throwing brickbats at him, saying: “Why are you doing this?

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2023

We can become cynical or angry and just throw brickbats.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 16, 2023

Public referendums have become the civic brickbats of anti-Olympics activists.

From Washington Post • Jul. 9, 2021

I looked around and saw several brickbats scattered about.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright