lambaste

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Good article Jeremy but clearly all your proof readers are on holiday: lambast is not spelt "lambaste".

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  1. transitive verb Informal To give a thrashing to; beat. See Synonyms at beat.
  2. transitive verb Informal To scold sharply; berate.

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  • Good article Jeremy but clearly all your proof readers are on holiday: lambast is not spelt "lambaste". —  The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • This is not so surprising from a columnist specialists love to lambaste, but this opening left me more confused than usual: —  Chinalyst - China blogs in English
  • Vanity Fair's Graydon Carter, who pens his editor's letter to lambaste the Bush administration in print the way Keith Olbermann does it on the tele every night. —  Jossip
  • One of his other four opponents for the job was stuck so deep in a time warp that he thought it was hilarious to lambaste Obama with the infamous "Magic Negro" parody ditty, and when he got some mild flack for it not only defended it but bristled at the thought that others might not laugh it up too. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • And of course, please, all of you fellow bloggers, continue to lambaste, rankle, subvert, protest, rise up against, resist, and whatever other adjectives come to mind, the hegemonic forces going on all around us. —  Thinking Girl
 

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/læmˈbeɪst/
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