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lambast

lambast \lam*bast"\, v. t. Same as lambaste.

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lambast

vb. (label en UK) (alternative form of lambaste English)

WordNet
lambast
  1. v. beat with a cane [syn: cane, flog, lambaste]

  2. 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" [syn: call on the carpet, rebuke, rag, trounce, reproof, lecture, reprimand, jaw, dress down, call down, scold, chide, berate, bawl out, remonstrate, chew out, chew up, have words, lambaste]

Usage examples of "lambast".

His ideas about women were being lambasted, and by Ham Brooks, who was notoriously gullible game for the fair sex.

Teenae returned from her search and lambasted Joesai, out of worn frustration, blaming him.

Once in the front room, he turned on the radio, and the blare of trumpets lambasted the house.

And the editor spends some time lambasting the Civil Guard for its inefficiency in not being able to find a two-ton statue.

You will have the whole trip to lambast me for my idiocy of giving you that money in plain view of all those men.

He exhaled and rolled his eyes, clearly not used to being lambasted by outraged females.

In the heat of committee debate he would boldly oppose two revered academicians, knocking down their recommendations with his new-found knowledge, then return to the campus, where he would listen meekly as the Cal Tech professors lambasted the analytical procedures in his thesis.

Editorials lambasted the cowardice of the fleeing criminals, and the Gridnovsky publishing empire threw its weight behind a variety of remedies: Murderer Starter Kits, sponsorship deals for elegant archvillains, and women's magazine articles with titles like “Ten Ways To Find Out If He's Cheating On You (And Deserves To Die).

Melfane had lambasted the cooks and every other woman in earshot for the bland diet they had been reeding her.

A few months after 9-11, forty congressmen released a letter lambasting Bush for his plan to use military tribunals for enemy combatants.

The media, which had been Navarro's pliant co-conspirators for so long, are now lambasted for their "feeding frenzy.

She only paused to take a breath as she further lambasted the astonished man.

To start with, she lambasted young Lambton for causing so much death and misery.

Editorials lambasted the cowardice of the fleeing criminals, and the Gridnovsky publishing empire threw its weight behind a variety of remedies: Murderer Starter Kits, sponsorship deals for elegant archvillains, and women's magazine articles with titles like “.

Intellectuals in the United States and Europe have lambasted television, in particular, for standardizing speech, habits, and tastes.