gibbeted

past tense of gibbet

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for gibbeted
Verb
  • These two hurricanes come after Hurricane Erin lashed North Carolina's Outer Banks with rough waves and coastal flooding last month.
    Kenton Gewecke, ABC News, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Some liberal commentators, however, have lashed out in response to the shooting, saying calls for prayer are tone deaf responses given the victims were inside a church.
    Phillip M. Bailey, USA Today, 29 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The series has never strived to be anything more than opulent fluff, but it still gets consistently pilloried for its lack of realism.
    Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Family matriarch Donna Adelson was scolded by a judge Thursday for weeping in the courtroom after being convicted of orchestrating a 2014 murder-for-hire plot of her former son-in-law, a prominent Florida State University law professor.
    Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Lox's reaction to being scolded.
    Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • After the dad walked back over to his son, the woman — also a Phillies fan — who lost the battle walked back over to the family and berated them.
    Alex Krutchik, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Centrist Peronists, Radicals, and deputies responding to provincial governors have also provided support—all while being publicly berated and attacked by the president and his allies.
    Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Advertisement Macron alone cannot be blamed for the rising far-right, which is on the march across the West.
    Cole Stangler, Time, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Within months of his release, Brown was charged with assaulting his sister, and according to WSOC-TV, even Brown's mother has blamed the courts for allowing her son to be out in the community.
    Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Once again, Miller called Dudek and excoriated him.
    Eli Hager, ProPublica, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg excoriated Trump during an Iowa town hall hosted by the liberal group VoteVets Action Fund.
    Mabinty Quarshie, The Washington Examiner, 28 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Many members of the media criticized the team's performance as did supporters, who were not impressed with the Americans, particularly in the first half, when the Koreans controlled the game and scored both goals.
    Michael Lewis, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • In a phone interview, both sharply criticized the map and its impact on Kansas City’s representation in Congress.
    Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Addressing supporters Saturday in the heart of his district, Kansas City’s longtime Democratic congressman and former mayor denounced Missouri lawmakers’ plan to dilute the city’s voting power by carving it up into three Republican congressional districts.
    Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 6 Sep. 2025
  • In the past, Newsom denounced judges who ruled against them as toadies of the firearms industry.
    Dan Walters, Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2025
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“Gibbeted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gibbeted. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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