lambast

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But I think it's unfair to lambast Jobs for not living long enough to reach that stage of his life.

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beat with a cane

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verb

beat with a cane

verb

censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"

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Core meanings and parts of speech for lambast.

verb

beat with a cane

verb

censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"

See also: rebuke, rag, trounce, reproof, lecture, reprimand, jaw, scold, chide, berate

Example sentences

But I think it's unfair to lambast Jobs for not living long enough to reach that stage of his life.

If Walmart were against minimum wage increases, their opponents would lambast them for it.

Maybe that's why these businesses always look so good going in!This is not to lambast you--quite the opposite actually.

I'm the first to lambast Apple when they push some crap but Lion is a minor improvement to the previous incarnation.

It's a fun thing to point out to those people how many of the words they're using to lambast you have actually changed meaning or are new words.

The ability to lambast public figures from behind a screen of anonymity seems to bring out the abusive worst in people, and the target has nowhere to run.

I'd agree that that the previous poster is quite blunt, however his biggest crime seems to be being pro Apple, with a negative view of Google, which is no good reason to lambast the chap.

> The ability to lambast public figures from behind a screen of anonymity seems to bring out the abusive worst in people,I feel like this point is really overstated.

It is unfortunate that satirical pieces of this sort so rarely follow up with commentary on how on promotes the peace after they lambast the idea of arming people to promote peace.

We're entirely too unwilling to really bother to get the message about this sort of thing out to the layperson, and we're even more unmotivated to actually do something about it. I love to lambast the baby boomers as much as the next neckbeard, but at least some of them actually had the chutzpah to do something.

Why should I as a FreeBSD person not be allowed to lambast the worst hack-on-hack-on-hack-on-hack I have to suffer ?And trust me, libtool is replaceable, all it takes an agreement about a compiler and loader flag for producing shared libraries and you suddenly don't need it at all.