lambaste
pronunciation
How to pronounce lambaste in British English:
UK [læm'beɪst]
How to pronounce lambaste in American English:
US [læmˈbest]
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- Verb:
- beat with a cane
- censure severely or angrily
Word Origin
- lambaste (v.)
- 1630s, from lam (1590s, ultimately from a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse lemja "to beat, to lame") + baste "to thrash" (see baste). Related: Lambasted; lambasting.
Example
- 1. The old lady detest , lambaste jiang road heartless !
- 2. The president recognized the reality of aging , then proceeded to lambaste the republicans for all their policy mistakes , their falsehoods and hypocrisies .
- 3. I have met people that praise my country for its equality freedom and wealth and I have met others that lambaste it for its inequality tolerance of iniquity and selfishness .
- 4. In their own books , rumsfeld and cheney lambaste rice .
- 5. Ancient mother to lambaste daughter obstructionism ?