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as in scolded
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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as in attacked
to criticize harshly and usually publicly
movie critics across the country lambasted the film for its contrived plot
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as in lashed
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 lambasted
Trying to shed ‘nice-guy tendencies’ Jeff Whittington stands in front of the room, flashes a boyish smile, and prepares to be lambasted.
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Rob Picheta,
CNN Money,
27 June 2026
Trump has repeatedly lambasted Labour’s approach to North Sea oil and gas production, arguing that Britain is unnecessarily restricting domestic energy supplies.
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Tiago Ventura,
Time,
24 June 2026
The comments were immediately lambasted online by parents and some other founders.
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Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez,
Fortune,
24 June 2026
In 2021, a federal judge lambasted McGee's work on the Alfonso Rodriguez case.
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Aki Nace,
CBS News,
23 June 2026
Lander, a progressive, is leading in the polls in the race to represent lower Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn and has lambasted the more moderate Goldman in his support for Israel and taking corporate PAC donations.
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Phillip M. Bailey,
USA Today,
23 June 2026
To support the need to take action, the statement cited several health studies lambasted by the plastics industry trade group.
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Michael Hawthorne,
Chicago Tribune,
21 June 2026
The collective shrug of Algerian shoulders would have been one of the considerations in the video review room, given that VARs the world over are lambasted for delaying the game when no one on the pitch seems interested in overturning the on-field decision.
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Graham Scott,
New York Times,
19 June 2026
Tensions over public health became especially high during the state's COVID lockdowns, which critics lambasted as too long and too strict.
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Kate Wells,
NPR,
2 June 2026
Rob Picheta,
CNN Money,
27 June 2026
Trump has repeatedly lambasted Labour’s approach to North Sea oil and gas production, arguing that Britain is unnecessarily restricting domestic energy supplies.
—
Tiago Ventura,
Time,
24 June 2026
The comments were immediately lambasted online by parents and some other founders.
—
Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez,
Fortune,
24 June 2026
In 2021, a federal judge lambasted McGee's work on the Alfonso Rodriguez case.
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Aki Nace,
CBS News,
23 June 2026
Lander, a progressive, is leading in the polls in the race to represent lower Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn and has lambasted the more moderate Goldman in his support for Israel and taking corporate PAC donations.
—
Phillip M. Bailey,
USA Today,
23 June 2026
To support the need to take action, the statement cited several health studies lambasted by the plastics industry trade group.
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Michael Hawthorne,
Chicago Tribune,
21 June 2026
The collective shrug of Algerian shoulders would have been one of the considerations in the video review room, given that VARs the world over are lambasted for delaying the game when no one on the pitch seems interested in overturning the on-field decision.
—
Graham Scott,
New York Times,
19 June 2026
Tensions over public health became especially high during the state's COVID lockdowns, which critics lambasted as too long and too strict.
—
Kate Wells,
NPR,
2 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lambasted
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Davis remembered once being scolded as a teenager by her mother after being caught speaking poorly of a classmate.
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Well versed in what the lunar surface truly offers, Britt scolded a number of arty accounts of lunar territory promulgated by both NASA and commercial space ventures.
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Police said former professional soccer player Badea and another man attacked Zeraati before fleeing in a getaway car driven by Stana and then flying out of the country from Heathrow Airport.
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The three men who attacked our CBS News Chicago crew near Adler Planetarium before pointing a gun at people in Brighton Park on Monday afternoon have been charged.
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Many on the right lashed out at conservative justices who joined the majority decision.
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The sting of the Australian box jellyfish has been described as being lashed with a whip dipped in burning acid, and is powerful enough to kill an adult in as little as two minutes!
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Once, in anthropology class, my professor lectured on an insular island tribe that cackled whenever someone got hurt.
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Sharon is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, an Honorary Member of the UK Association of Jungian Analysts, and has taught and lectured at many academic institutions, Jungian organisations, retreat centres and cultural festivals around the world.
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In a scathing Instagram post this morning, LuPone, who has long been devoted to her equally enamored gay fandom, slammed Turkey’s latest homophobic move.
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Investigators said the Tesla slammed through a brick home at a high rate of speed, fatally striking Avila.
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Dansby Swanson hit three home runs, including a grand slam, Michael Conforto homered twice and the Chicago Cubs pounded the San Diego Padres 23-3 on Wednesday.
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Over a period of more than an hour, according to police reports and Sebold’s memoir, the assailant bludgeoned Sebold with his fists, pounded her skull into the brick and choked her.
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Wimbledon fashion is also something that can get patrons in trouble, with Andy Samberg saying he was reprimanded for wearing black jeans in the Royal Box.
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Anne White was famously reprimanded for wearing a skin-tight unitard during her first-round match in June 1985.
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The program posed a massive political problem for Mamdani, who’s been criticized by both his allies and opponents for his stance.
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While state studies have criticized the state’s education governance model, voters have rejected at least four attempts dating back to 1928 to reform the position.
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