Definition of lambaste in English:

lambaste

(also lambast)

verb lamˈbeɪst

[with object]

Criticize (someone or something) harshly.
严厉批评
they lambasted the report as a gross distortion of the truth
他们激烈批评该报告是严重歪曲事实。
Example sentencesExamples
- She praises the grit of her adopted city, barely raising the ire of the critics who had once lambasted her as a carpetbagger, using New York as a stepping stone to her likely bid for higher office.
- The president lambasted the people who were behind land invasions in the Western Cape and Gauteng, describing them as opportunists who were abusing the country's democracy.
- I'd like to think I've answered those critics who had lambasted me for my disciplinary problems and, under some provocation at times this summer, I've held my composure.
- I mean, it is a sad state of affairs when someone who lambastes politicians and other people as part of his day job, can't snort some coke and visit a prostitute without the press raking everything up.
- 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?
- New York Times art critic Michael Kimmelman lambasted the process as an ineffective means for choosing a design for a public memorial, or any architectural space.
- We send in the navy and the SAS, we spend more money, we talk tough, we lambast the people smugglers, we heighten the fears, but still the boats with their desperate human cargo come and Megawati refuses to answer John's calls.
- A new report by two high-powered official committees lambasts the government and the nuclear industry for failing to keep more than 65,000 cubic metres of radioactive waste safe.
- Michael Sheridan, Bishop of Colorado Springs, used a pastoral letter to lambaste people who professed to be Catholic and then voted for politicians whose platforms ran contrary to Church teaching.
- He criticises his own players in public, lambasts the fans if attendances are down, admits the team stinks when it does, and occasionally entertains journalists by reading them his personal e-mails.
- A Quigney shopkeeper, who wished to be anonymous, lambasted people's irresponsible behaviour during this period.
- Furious York City chief Terry Dolan today lambasted reports suggesting the Minstermen are willing to let young starlet Chris Hogg move to Manchester United without a fight.
- And he's devoted thousands of words to lambasting American reporters, in particular those of The New York Times.
- He lambasted the law's critics for alleging that limiting the use of force in making arrests would make police sitting ducks.
- Many critics have lambasted the female characters in his plays as two-dimensional and unrealistic portrayals of subservient women.
- Critics lambaste such payouts for health-care executives, calling them offensive when millions of Americans can't even afford coverage.
- Critics of the academy have lambasted faculty doves.
- Critics have lambasted him for going over the top on trivia and conversely for not putting in the boot hard enough.
- Critics have railed against Washington for its gunslinging unilateralism, lambasting the US for playing the lone ranger.
- Critics lambasted it for its confusing, polymorphic nature, as it swung between metaphor to comedy to science; readers did not flock to buy it.
Synonyms
criticize, castigate, chastise, censure, condemn, take to task, harangue, attack, rail at, rant at, revile, fulminate against, haul/call over the coals
upbraid, scold, reprimand, rebuke, chide, reprove, admonish, berate
informal rap someone's knuckles, slap someone's wrist, lay into, pitch into, tear into, lace into, dress down, give someone a dressing-down, carpet, tell off, bawl out
British informal tick off, have a go at, slag off
North American informal chew out
rare reprehend, excoriate, objurgate

Origin

Mid 17th century (in the sense 'beat, thrash'): from lam¹ + baste³. The current sense dates from the late 19th century.

The early sense recorded for lambaste was ‘beat, thrash’: it comes from late 16th-century lam meaning ‘beat soundly’ and mid 16th-century baste meaning ‘thrash’, both probably of Scandinavian origin. The sense ‘criticize harshly’ dates from the late 19th century. The US expression on the lam ‘in flight’ developed from lam in the late 19th century.

Rhymes

barefaced, baste, boldfaced, chaste, haste, paste, po-faced, red-faced, self-faced, shamefaced, smooth-faced, strait-laced, taste, unplaced, untraced, waist, waste

Definition of lambaste in US English:

lambaste

(also lambast)

verb

[with object]

Criticize (someone or something) harshly.
严厉批评
they lambasted the report as a gross distortion of the truth
他们激烈批评该报告是严重歪曲事实。
Example sentencesExamples
- A new report by two high-powered official committees lambasts the government and the nuclear industry for failing to keep more than 65,000 cubic metres of radioactive waste safe.
- Critics lambasted it for its confusing, polymorphic nature, as it swung between metaphor to comedy to science; readers did not flock to buy it.
- Many critics have lambasted the female characters in his plays as two-dimensional and unrealistic portrayals of subservient women.
- The president lambasted the people who were behind land invasions in the Western Cape and Gauteng, describing them as opportunists who were abusing the country's democracy.
- A Quigney shopkeeper, who wished to be anonymous, lambasted people's irresponsible behaviour during this period.
- He criticises his own players in public, lambasts the fans if attendances are down, admits the team stinks when it does, and occasionally entertains journalists by reading them his personal e-mails.
- She praises the grit of her adopted city, barely raising the ire of the critics who had once lambasted her as a carpetbagger, using New York as a stepping stone to her likely bid for higher office.
- I mean, it is a sad state of affairs when someone who lambastes politicians and other people as part of his day job, can't snort some coke and visit a prostitute without the press raking everything up.
- Critics of the academy have lambasted faculty doves.
- Critics have lambasted him for going over the top on trivia and conversely for not putting in the boot hard enough.
- We send in the navy and the SAS, we spend more money, we talk tough, we lambast the people smugglers, we heighten the fears, but still the boats with their desperate human cargo come and Megawati refuses to answer John's calls.
- 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?
- He lambasted the law's critics for alleging that limiting the use of force in making arrests would make police sitting ducks.
- Critics have railed against Washington for its gunslinging unilateralism, lambasting the US for playing the lone ranger.
- I'd like to think I've answered those critics who had lambasted me for my disciplinary problems and, under some provocation at times this summer, I've held my composure.
- And he's devoted thousands of words to lambasting American reporters, in particular those of The New York Times.
- New York Times art critic Michael Kimmelman lambasted the process as an ineffective means for choosing a design for a public memorial, or any architectural space.
- Furious York City chief Terry Dolan today lambasted reports suggesting the Minstermen are willing to let young starlet Chris Hogg move to Manchester United without a fight.
- Critics lambaste such payouts for health-care executives, calling them offensive when millions of Americans can't even afford coverage.
- Michael Sheridan, Bishop of Colorado Springs, used a pastoral letter to lambaste people who professed to be Catholic and then voted for politicians whose platforms ran contrary to Church teaching.
Synonyms
criticize, castigate, chastise, censure, condemn, take to task, harangue, attack, rail at, rant at, revile, fulminate against, call over the coals, haul over the coals

Origin

Mid 17th century (in the sense ‘beat, thrash’): from lam + baste. The current sense dates from the late 19th century.

词汇	lambaste
释义	Definition of lambaste in English: lambaste (also lambast) verb lamˈbeɪst [with object] Criticize (someone or something) harshly. 严厉批评 they lambasted the report as a gross distortion of the truth 他们激烈批评该报告是严重歪曲事实。 Example sentencesExamples She praises the grit of her adopted city, barely raising the ire of the critics who had once lambasted her as a carpetbagger, using New York as a stepping stone to her likely bid for higher office. The president lambasted the people who were behind land invasions in the Western Cape and Gauteng, describing them as opportunists who were abusing the country's democracy. I'd like to think I've answered those critics who had lambasted me for my disciplinary problems and, under some provocation at times this summer, I've held my composure. I mean, it is a sad state of affairs when someone who lambastes politicians and other people as part of his day job, can't snort some coke and visit a prostitute without the press raking everything up. 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? New York Times art critic Michael Kimmelman lambasted the process as an ineffective means for choosing a design for a public memorial, or any architectural space. We send in the navy and the SAS, we spend more money, we talk tough, we lambast the people smugglers, we heighten the fears, but still the boats with their desperate human cargo come and Megawati refuses to answer John's calls. A new report by two high-powered official committees lambasts the government and the nuclear industry for failing to keep more than 65,000 cubic metres of radioactive waste safe. Michael Sheridan, Bishop of Colorado Springs, used a pastoral letter to lambaste people who professed to be Catholic and then voted for politicians whose platforms ran contrary to Church teaching. He criticises his own players in public, lambasts the fans if attendances are down, admits the team stinks when it does, and occasionally entertains journalists by reading them his personal e-mails. A Quigney shopkeeper, who wished to be anonymous, lambasted people's irresponsible behaviour during this period. Furious York City chief Terry Dolan today lambasted reports suggesting the Minstermen are willing to let young starlet Chris Hogg move to Manchester United without a fight. And he's devoted thousands of words to lambasting American reporters, in particular those of The New York Times. He lambasted the law's critics for alleging that limiting the use of force in making arrests would make police sitting ducks. Many critics have lambasted the female characters in his plays as two-dimensional and unrealistic portrayals of subservient women. Critics lambaste such payouts for health-care executives, calling them offensive when millions of Americans can't even afford coverage. Critics of the academy have lambasted faculty doves. Critics have lambasted him for going over the top on trivia and conversely for not putting in the boot hard enough. Critics have railed against Washington for its gunslinging unilateralism, lambasting the US for playing the lone ranger. Critics lambasted it for its confusing, polymorphic nature, as it swung between metaphor to comedy to science; readers did not flock to buy it. Synonyms criticize, castigate, chastise, censure, condemn, take to task, harangue, attack, rail at, rant at, revile, fulminate against, haul/call over the coals upbraid, scold, reprimand, rebuke, chide, reprove, admonish, berate informal rap someone's knuckles, slap someone's wrist, lay into, pitch into, tear into, lace into, dress down, give someone a dressing-down, carpet, tell off, bawl out British informal tick off, have a go at, slag off North American informal chew out rare reprehend, excoriate, objurgate Origin Mid 17th century (in the sense 'beat, thrash'): from lam¹ + baste³. The current sense dates from the late 19th century. The early sense recorded for lambaste was ‘beat, thrash’: it comes from late 16th-century lam meaning ‘beat soundly’ and mid 16th-century baste meaning ‘thrash’, both probably of Scandinavian origin. The sense ‘criticize harshly’ dates from the late 19th century. The US expression on the lam ‘in flight’ developed from lam in the late 19th century. Rhymes barefaced, baste, boldfaced, chaste, haste, paste, po-faced, red-faced, self-faced, shamefaced, smooth-faced, strait-laced, taste, unplaced, untraced, waist, waste Definition of lambaste in US English: lambaste (also lambast) verb [with object] Criticize (someone or something) harshly. 严厉批评 they lambasted the report as a gross distortion of the truth 他们激烈批评该报告是严重歪曲事实。 Example sentencesExamples A new report by two high-powered official committees lambasts the government and the nuclear industry for failing to keep more than 65,000 cubic metres of radioactive waste safe. Critics lambasted it for its confusing, polymorphic nature, as it swung between metaphor to comedy to science; readers did not flock to buy it. Many critics have lambasted the female characters in his plays as two-dimensional and unrealistic portrayals of subservient women. The president lambasted the people who were behind land invasions in the Western Cape and Gauteng, describing them as opportunists who were abusing the country's democracy. A Quigney shopkeeper, who wished to be anonymous, lambasted people's irresponsible behaviour during this period. He criticises his own players in public, lambasts the fans if attendances are down, admits the team stinks when it does, and occasionally entertains journalists by reading them his personal e-mails. She praises the grit of her adopted city, barely raising the ire of the critics who had once lambasted her as a carpetbagger, using New York as a stepping stone to her likely bid for higher office. I mean, it is a sad state of affairs when someone who lambastes politicians and other people as part of his day job, can't snort some coke and visit a prostitute without the press raking everything up. Critics of the academy have lambasted faculty doves. Critics have lambasted him for going over the top on trivia and conversely for not putting in the boot hard enough. We send in the navy and the SAS, we spend more money, we talk tough, we lambast the people smugglers, we heighten the fears, but still the boats with their desperate human cargo come and Megawati refuses to answer John's calls. 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? He lambasted the law's critics for alleging that limiting the use of force in making arrests would make police sitting ducks. Critics have railed against Washington for its gunslinging unilateralism, lambasting the US for playing the lone ranger. I'd like to think I've answered those critics who had lambasted me for my disciplinary problems and, under some provocation at times this summer, I've held my composure. And he's devoted thousands of words to lambasting American reporters, in particular those of The New York Times. New York Times art critic Michael Kimmelman lambasted the process as an ineffective means for choosing a design for a public memorial, or any architectural space. Furious York City chief Terry Dolan today lambasted reports suggesting the Minstermen are willing to let young starlet Chris Hogg move to Manchester United without a fight. Critics lambaste such payouts for health-care executives, calling them offensive when millions of Americans can't even afford coverage. Michael Sheridan, Bishop of Colorado Springs, used a pastoral letter to lambaste people who professed to be Catholic and then voted for politicians whose platforms ran contrary to Church teaching. Synonyms criticize, castigate, chastise, censure, condemn, take to task, harangue, attack, rail at, rant at, revile, fulminate against, call over the coals, haul over the coals Origin Mid 17th century (in the sense ‘beat, thrash’): from lam + baste. The current sense dates from the late 19th century.
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