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as in to scold
to criticize (someone) severely or angrily especially for personal failings
the director lambasted them mercilessly for forgetting their lines during the final dress rehearsal
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2
as in to attack
to criticize harshly and usually publicly
movie critics across the country lambasted the film for its contrived plot
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3
as in to lick
to strike repeatedly
like all westerns, this movie contains the requisite scene of saloon patrons lambasting each other
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Recent Examples of lambaste
Critics of Trump's decision lambasted both the firing itself and the way it was carried out: via an email sent to Hayden at 6:56 p.m. Eastern time.
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Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 9 May 2025
Several top Democrats also lambasted Trump on the matter and Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee launched a probe into the matter.
—Siladitya Ray, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
Join 263 others in the comments View Comments Still, the Obama and Biden administrations lambasted both of those decisions.
—Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN Money, 16 May 2025
Ono was also called out for speaking at an Anti-Defamation League conference on antisemitism and hate after the ADL was lambasted for defending Elon Musk’s salute at Trump’s inauguration that critics described as Nazi-like.
—Jeffrey Schweers, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 May 2025
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Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 9 May 2025
Several top Democrats also lambasted Trump on the matter and Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee launched a probe into the matter.
—Siladitya Ray, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
Join 263 others in the comments View Comments Still, the Obama and Biden administrations lambasted both of those decisions.
—Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN Money, 16 May 2025
Ono was also called out for speaking at an Anti-Defamation League conference on antisemitism and hate after the ADL was lambasted for defending Elon Musk’s salute at Trump’s inauguration that critics described as Nazi-like.
—Jeffrey Schweers, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lambaste
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At another meeting in May 2024, Grippo scolded female employees for not working hard enough, although the team was high-performing and employees worked long hours, the lawsuit said.—
Suhauna Hussain,
Los Angeles Times,
4 June 2025
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In January at the annual World Economic Forum, President Donald Trump scolded Brian Moynihan, the CEO of Bank of America.—
Ramishah Maruf,
CNN Money,
3 June 2025
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The pathogen is known as Fusarium graminearum, which can attack wheat, barley, maize and rice and sicken livestock and people, the FBI said in a court filing in Detroit.—
Ed White,
Los Angeles Times,
4 June 2025
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After the quake evacuation, the inmates were still outside of the cells when a group suddenly attacked guards, seized their weapons, opened fire and fled, said Sindh Home Minister Ziaul Hassan.—
Brittany Williams,
Arkansas Online,
4 June 2025
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Jose shrugs, pleads with her to not lick anyone at the inn, and leaves.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
22 May 2025
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But Fahy, Alcock, and director Nicole Kassell are also very good at their jobs, and so even downright bizarre moments like Simone chewing Michaela’s used gum or Devon randomly licking a landscaper’s neck wind up making a strange sort of sense.—
Caroline Framke,
Vulture,
22 May 2025
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These days, nothing infuriates liberals more than to be lectured about the American plutocracy — not when Trump is perhaps the most brazenly corrupt president to hold the office in modern history.—
Alexander Heffner,
Chicago Tribune,
29 May 2025
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Maybe Healey can lecture them on how to sue Trump a hundred times and bankrupt a state on migrant hotel shelters.—
Joe Battenfeld,
Boston Herald,
27 May 2025
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The Florida Panthers slammed the door on that, crushing that hope with a three-goal flurry in the second period and a game-winner in the third period.—
Adam Lichtenstein,
Sun Sentinel,
29 May 2025
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The 58-year-old man driving the truck reportedly then lost control of his vehicle before slamming into a nearby Honda Odyssey and sending them both into a guard rail, WOFL and CBS affiliate WKMG-TV reported.—
Abigail Adams,
People.com,
28 May 2025
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One of his owners, Craig Leipold, did, back in January.—
Pierre LeBrun,
New York Times,
5 June 2025
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Enter Ketamine To confirm the finding, the team did the experiment again.—
Jon Hamilton,
NPR,
4 June 2025
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The document was quickly criticized for errors and citing studies that don’t exist, as first reported by NOTUS, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news site.—
Sandee LaMotte,
CNN Money,
3 June 2025
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Harry and Meghan have been criticized for making money out of projects that criticized the royal family, including through the multiyear, multimillion dollar Netflix deal that the Harry & Meghan documentary was part of.—
Jack Royston,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 June 2025
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On May 30, 2025, a Pennsylvania federal court refused NFL player agent Todd France’s request to vacate a December 2023 arbitration decision which ordered France to pay over $800,000 in damages to rival agent Jason Bernstein and which excoriated France for fraudulent conduct.—
Chris Deubert,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2025
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This group certainly deserves to be excoriated; Tapper and Thompson marshal lots of evidence that Biden was even worse behind the scenes than in public, and those closest to the president tightly restricted access to him to obscure the problem.—
Michelle Goldberg,
Mercury News,
17 May 2025
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