LAMBASTES Synonyms: 193 Similar and Opposite Words

lambastes

verb

variants or lambasts

present tense third-person singular of lambaste

as in scolds

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 slams

to criticize harshly and usually publicly movie critics across the country lambasted the film for its contrived plot

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as in licks

to strike repeatedly like all westerns, this movie contains the requisite scene of saloon patrons lambasting each other

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The film contains one of the great gross-out scenes of all time, in which Adjani has a bloody, violent miscarriage in a Berlin subway station and slams her body around as if in the throes of an exorcism.

The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2024
Brown is casting Moreno as a wealthy businessman who is out for himself, and Moreno, R-Ohio, slams Brown as a career politician who is a rubber stamp for President Joe Biden and Harris.

Democrat-Gazette staff from wire reports, arkansasonline.com, 13 Oct. 2024

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