Thesaurus / lambaste
FEEDBACKHow to use lambaste in a sentence
They said Republicans sought to dismantle a safety-net program they long had lambasted as offering “Obamaphones,” even though the former president didn’t create it.
LACKING A LIFELINE: HOW A FEDERAL EFFORT TO HELP LOW-INCOME AMERICANS PAY THEIR PHONE BILLS FAILED AMID THE PANDEMICTONY ROMMFEBRUARY 9, 2021WASHINGTON POSTThe jetty was legally installed in 1970 and has become a beloved destination, but I wonder if it would have been lambasted in the age of social media.
WHO'S REALLY TO BLAME FOR THE MONOLITH SHITSHOWMARK SUNDEENDECEMBER 4, 2020OUTSIDE ONLINEIn late August, an update to the regulation passed the SEC commission with two of five commissioners dissenting, lambasting the amendment for falling “silent” on climate change.
BLACKROCK’S ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE DOESN’T MATCH CEO LARRY FINK’S PLEDGEEAMONBARRETTOCTOBER 1, 2020FORTUNEOil workers and executives testified about the jobs that supported their families, and they lambasted “environmental extremists” and state officials.
OIL COMPANIES ARE PROFITING FROM ILLEGAL SPILLS. AND CALIFORNIA LETS THEM.BY JANET WILSON, THE DESERT SUN, AND LYLLA YOUNES, PROPUBLICASEPTEMBER 18, 2020PROPUBLICAIn short, her pitch is well-tuned to conservative Missouri, decrying government waste and lambasting out-of-touch elites.
FROM SOCCER-MOM AUDITOR TO MISSOURI GOVERNOR?NICK FOURIEZOSAUGUST 6, 2020OZYHe aint gonna lambaste half our crew an the ole man, an git away wid it!
CURSEDGEORGE ALLAN ENGLANDJake, who's been itching to lambaste the man, says 's-far's he can see, it was the poolroom man who did all the talking.
GREEN VALLEYKATHARINE REYNOLDSI want to go out and help lambaste those infernally cocksure armies of that jelly-and-cream King.
MAKERS OF MADNESSHERMANN HAGEDORNAn' then, whoop they come over to England, an' they lambaste the Anglo-Saxons, an' talk to 'em about 'honneur.'
HOW DOTH THE SIMPLE SPELLING BEEOWEN WISTERThey lambaste impartially and with a certain Irish delight in doing the job thoroughly.
THE RULES OF THE GAMESTEWART EDWARD WHITEWORDS RELATED TO LAMBASTE
- baste
- bawl out
- beat
- berate
- blister
- cane
- censure
- chasten
- chastise
- chew out
- come down on
- correct
- criticize
- discipline
- drag over the coals
- dress down
- drub
- excoriate
- flay
- flog
- jump down one's throat
- lambaste
- lash
- lay out
- lean on
- penalize
- pummel
- punish
- rail
- rate
- read the riot act
- ream
- rebuke
- reprimand
- scarify
- scathe
- scold
- scorch
- scourge
- thrash
- tongue-lash
- upbraid
- whip
- animadvert on
- bash
- blame
- blast
- blister
- carp
- castigate
- censure
- chastise
- chide
- clobber
- come down on
- condemn
- cut down
- cut to bits
- cut up
- denounce
- denunciate
- disparage
- do a number on
- dress down
- excoriate
- find fault
- fluff
- fulminate against
- fustigate
- give bad press
- hit
- jump on
- knock
- lambaste
- nag at
- nit-pick
- pan
- pick at
- rap
- reprehend
- reprimand
- reprobate
- reprove
- rip
- roast
- scathe
- scorch
- skin
- skin alive
- slam
- slog
- slug
- take down
- trash
- trim
- zap
- baffles
- balks
- beats down
- beats the system
- blanks
- blocks
- buries
- casts down
- causes setback
- checkmates
- circumvents
- confounds
- contravenes
- cooks
- counterplots
- crosses
- disappoints
- discomfits
- disconcerts
- disproves
- edges out
- foils
- invalidates
- neutralizes
- nonpluses
- nose out
- nullifies
- outwits
- overturns
- puts end to
- puzzles
- quells
- reduces
- refutes
- ruins
- scuttles
- shaves
- shellacs
- skunks
- spoils
- squashes
- stumps
- subdues
- subjugates
- surmounts
- takes wind out of sails
- throws for loop
- thwarts
- undoes
- victimizes
- KO
- bang
- bash
- bat
- batter
- beat
- belt
- blast
- blitz
- box
- brain
- buffet
- bump
- clap
- clip
- clobber
- clout
- club
- crack
- cudgel
- cuff
- dab
- ding
- flail
- flax
- flog
- give a black eye
- hammer
- hook
- jab
- kick
- knock
- knock around
- knock out
- lace
- lambaste
- larrup
- lather
- let fly
- let have it
- lob
- nail
- pellet
- pelt
- percuss
- pop
- pound
- punch
- rap
- ride roughshod
- slap
- smack
- sock
- stone
- swat
- tap
- thrash
- thump
- thwack
- trash
- uppercut
- wallop
- whack
- whang
- abuse
- afflict
- aggrieve
- annoy
- burn
- chafe
- constrain
- cut to the quick
- discomfit
- discommode
- displease
- distress
- excruciate
- faze
- give no quarter
- go for jugular
- grieve
- hit where one lives
- injure
- lambaste
- lay a bad trip on
- lean on
- martyr
- martyrize
- prejudice
- punish
- put down
- put out
- sadden
- sting
- thumb nose at
- torment
- torture
- try
- upset
- vex
- vitiate
- work over
- wound
- zing
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