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lambasted

[ lam-bey-stid, -ba- ]

adjective

  1. having been strongly or severely criticized:

    Unfortunately, a very weak script and lackluster direction resulted in a critically lambasted film and poor box office.



verb

  1. the simple past tense and past participle of lambaste ( def ).
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Example Sentences

When his Twilight movies got lambasted, “that was more expected,” he says.

During the 2012 battle between Hamas and Israel, Stewart lambasted the media for its obsession with declaring a “winner.”

He lambasted the NSA for its over-zealous data grabs, and its unrestrained eavesdropping on average Americans.

Snowden was lambasted as the most dangerous leaker in U.S. history.

The Israeli cabinet minister lambasted the potential deal as giving Iran $40 billion in sanctions relief.

To be lambasted with a dried codfish was such an unheard-of thing that Rilla could not face it.

Im thoroughly lambasted and convinced and mighty glad of it.

You just laid for that one, and lambasted it out where the buttercups and daisies grow.

I have added to my unpopularity by the manner in which I lambasted the repressionist element in the campaign just closed.

When I used to thry and sing in choorch, the ould gintleman always lambasted me for filing the saw on Sunday.

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