What is "brickbats"

Usage examples of "brickbats".

For all that, Marvell has excelled himself with his verse though I have chid him for some ugly rhyming and the childlike brickbats it does cast against the art of painting.

Research was the foundation upon which the Hands of Grace program rested, the armor that would protect it from the brickbats hurled by those who would see in its simple ministry of the heart a threat to their administrative power, the key that would unlock the doors of scientific materialism and allow contemplative musicians unimpeded entry into hospital and hospice alike.

These being all rejected, I reflected awhile, and sarcastically suggested brickbats at three-quarters of a mile.

He came back presently and said his principal was charmed with the idea of brickbats at three-quarters of a mile, but must decline on account of the danger to disinterested parties passing between them.

Now, we don't believe in throwing brickbats at the other fellow but we can make a stand on Election Day, as far as I'm concerned.