[ UK /bɹˈɪkbæt/ ]
[ US /ˈbɹɪkˌbæt/ ]
NOUN
  1. a fragment of brick used as a weapon
  2. blunt criticism
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How To Use brickbat In A Sentence

  • Use the comments function to throw bouquets and brickbats, if you feel like it.
  • Fittingly, this book provides a store of fascinating insights for those who love him, and a supply of brickbats for those who don't.
  • Others hurled brickbats supplied to them by boys who had mounted a wall.
  • And by the fourth issue of Oz the plaudits were beginning to outnumber the brickbats.
  • I do not feel any dereliction of duty but do feel that your brickbat is a duffer. Dale Strategy Pays Off: Yorkie Socialists Humbled
  • She wore outfits of bright green, and hurled arguments about like brickbats.
  • After all the bouquets must come the brickbats.
  • Perhaps, it could well be the reason why bouquets as well as brickbats are flung with such fierce passion.
  • ‘We have learnt to live with the bouquets and brickbats, which we realise to be part of our occupational hazard’, he adds.
  • You're not owed anything but, at BEST, the neglect of a postliterate culture, and at worst the sort of calumny and brickbats otherwise reserved for child molestors and the people who hang their toilet paper in the incorrect underhand manner. Nick Mamatas' Journal
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