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Synonyms and Antonyms of lambasting
- the director lambasted them mercilessly for forgetting their lines during the final dress rehearsal
basting, bawling out, berating, calling down, castigating, chastising, chewing out, dressing down, flaying, hammering, jawing, keelhauling, lecturing, ragging, railing (at or against), ranting (at), rating, reaming (out), rebuking, reprimanding, reproaching, scolding, scoring, tongue-lashing, upbraiding
admonishing, chiding, remonstrating (with), reproving
abusing, assailing, attacking, bad-mouthing, blaming, blasting, censuring, condemning, criticizing, crucifying, denouncing, dissing [slang], excoriating, faulting, haranguing, knocking, lacing (into), lashing, panning, reprehending, reviling, scourging, slamming, vituperating
- movie critics across the country lambasted the film for its contrived plot
berating, haranguing, harassing, harrying, reviling, scolding, whipping
blaspheming, cursing, execrating, imprecating, profaning
affronting, insulting, slurring
aspersing, bad-mouthing, belittling, blackguarding, disparaging, putting down
libeling (or libelling), slandering, traducing, vilifying
chastising, chiding, criticizing, lacing (into), rebuking, reprimanding
- like all westerns, this movie contains the requisite scene of saloon patrons lambasting each other
bashing, basting, battering, batting, beating, belaboring, belting, birching, bludgeoning, buffeting, bunging up, clubbing, currying, doing, drubbing, fibbing [British], flogging, hammering, hiding, lacing, lashing, lathering, licking, mauling, messing (up), paddling, pelting, pommeling (or pommelling), pounding, pummeling (also pummelling), punching out, roughing (up), slating, slogging, switching, tanning, thrashing, threshing, thumping, tromping, walloping, whaling, whipping, whopping (or whapping), whupping, working over
assailing, assaulting, attacking, besetting, boxing, busting, chopping, clobbering, clouting, cracking, cudgeling (or cudgelling), cuffing, descending (on or upon), hitting, jumping (on), knocking, lamming, laying on, pasting, pouncing (on or upon), punching, raiding, rushing, slamming, slapping, smacking, smashing, socking, spanking, storming, swatting, swiping, thwacking, whacking, whamming, whomping
blackjacking, caning, cowhiding, flagellating, fustigating, horsewhipping, leathering, pistol-whipping, rawhiding, scourging, strapping
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