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• past participle of lambaste.
• past tense form of lambaste.

lambasted

American  

[lam-bey-stid, -ba-] / læmˈbeɪ stɪd, -ˈbæ- /

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.

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verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of lambaste.

Etymology

Origin of lambasted

lambaste ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

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lambasted

It was then that Tuchel may well have given the game away when he heaped praise on England's mentality but lambasted their lack of quality.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

President Trump last month lambasted the company’s “absolutely horrible” response to the L.A. infernos.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026

David spoke about the outrageous audition process for “Curb,” wherein actors tried to navigate a brief written scenario without any dialogue to guide them as David lambasted them in character.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2026

Several esteemed opera houses, ballet companies and artists working within these spaces publicly lambasted Chalamet’s comments.

From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2026

Down through the seventies and eighties the tradition persisted, newspapers being bought and read, as a historian of journalism asserts, not so much for news as to see who was getting "lambasted" that day.

From The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling by Ambrose Bierce