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slating
1/ ˈsleɪtɪŋ /
noun
- the act or process of laying slates
- slates collectively, or material for making slates
slating
2/ ˈsleɪtɪŋ /
noun
- informal.a severe reprimand or critical attack
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- un·slating adjective
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Example Sentences
The company is slating at least $1 billion to pay for severance and other related costs alone.
A bailee received some cheese and gave a receipt slating that it was to be kept at the owner's risk of loss from water.
It fell to a critic on the Westminster Gazette to do the out and out "slating."
Or, slake lime in tar, and into it dip sheets of the thickest brown paper, to be laid on in the manner of slating.
Wy, it's worth a fair six d a week jest to see 'em a slating Old Chips!
And this was all the result of the slating the press gave to Mavis Clare!
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