[
US
/ˌɫæmˈbæst, ˌɫæmˈbeɪst/
]
VERB
- beat with a cane
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censure severely or angrily
The deputy ragged the Prime Minister
The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car
The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup
How To Use lambaste In A Sentence
- Is it really a coincidence that those critics who continue to lambaste traditional media organisations for their supposedly partisan bias and lack of objectivity are actually contributing to making the media more biased?
- Many critics have lambasted the female characters in his plays as two-dimensional and unrealistic portrayals of subservient women.
- Broward, not usually known as a natty dresser, sauntered up in a linen suit the color of new butter and proceeded to lambaste Davis for his alliance with “land pirates and purchased newspapers.” Dream State
- For those of you searching for a safe reason to lambaste Twilight: New Moon without sounding like a grumpy old fogy, Asylum. com has the answer: New Moon‘s werewolves simply aren’t werewolves. Do 'New Moon's' werewolves belong on Daytona Beach? | EW.com
- A Quigney shopkeeper, who wished to be anonymous, lambasted people's irresponsible behaviour during this period.
- Critics lambaste such payouts for health-care executives, calling them offensive when millions of Americans can't even afford coverage.
- But Charisse could not so easily lambaste God for taking their little boy. Who Said It Would Be Easy
- Democrats lambasted the President's budget plan for being 'inadequate'.
- MPs on the committee lambasted self-regulation as ‘totally inadequate’ in curtailing sharp practices among operators who flouted the rules.
- After the Bee, Rick Toms, 14, of Tempe, Ariz., who stumbled on "girolle" (a kind of mushroom), lambasted the trash talkers he claimed threw him off his "game. The Sportsman's Daily: Trash Talking Contestants Roil 82nd Annual Spelling Bee
