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bashed

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The PCjr is always bashed, especially for the keyboard, but I never understood that.

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Quick take

(transitive, informal) To criticize harshly.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of bashed gathered in one view.

verb

(transitive, informal) To criticize harshly.

verb

(informal) To strike heavily.

verb

(informal) To collide; used with into or together.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for bashed.

verb

(transitive, informal) To criticize harshly.

verb

(informal) To strike heavily.

verb

(informal) To collide; used with into or together.

Example sentences

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The PCjr is always bashed, especially for the keyboard, but I never understood that.

2

Just don't use the clever Ruby syntax stuff unless one wishes to be bashed <groan 2.0> over the head.

3

To be fair, Slashdot bashed the i Pod (2001), not the iPod + iTunes w/ Store (2003).

4

If they didn't they would probably get sued and bashed on HN for promoting walled gardens and abusing OEMs.

5

After you've had this bashed over your head a few times, it's just standard cruft to append.

6

Not sure why they should be bashed for poor programming when in the end, results are the only thing that matters.

7

What about the personal freedom of the kid who gets bashed by their drunk parent?

8

Then they shooed away the bums, then they beat and bashed the queers, turned away asylum-seekers, fed us suspicions and fears.

9

Funny how this made it to #1 on Hacker News only to get bashed.

10

Hopefully they won't get bashed so hard since this is not so user facing.

11

Then again, I still have respect for people that have bashed together crappy toy OSs.

12

There's another that's python based, and widely bashed for being 'too hard to reason about', but it has none of the problems with disgusting 'standard' libraries.

Quote examples

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IMO, any resource like the one in the OP is going to get bashed ("not the way I would learn stuff").

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use bashed in a sentence?

The PCjr is always bashed, especially for the keyboard, but I never understood that.

What does bashed mean?

(transitive, informal) To criticize harshly.

What part of speech is bashed?

bashed is commonly used as verb.