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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lambast.

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Examples

  • All I'll say is this: when McCain lambasts Obama for being loved by the rest of the world, just remember that when electing the self-proclaimed "leader of the free world" it's polite to consider who the rest of us think that should be.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Jonathan 2008

  • All I'll say is this: when McCain lambasts Obama for being loved by the rest of the world, just remember that when electing the self-proclaimed "leader of the free world" it's polite to consider who the rest of us think that should be.

    Prediction Obama 311-227 McCain Jonathan 2008

  • The document, dated Nov. 10, lambasts United for using only individual, computer-based training to help United pilots absorb a "large volume of procedural changes, some of which are quite complex," without including classroom work or practice sessions in flight simulators.

    United Pilots Turn Up Heat Susan Carey 2011

  • But $5,000 (the maximum allowed) to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who routinely lambasts the federal government's decision to keep GM alive?

    Carl Pope: The Strangest Campaign Gifts of 2010 Carl Pope 2010

  • Okay, so Obama goes on record and lambasts the results.

    McCain again pans president's Iran response 2009

  • But $5,000 (the maximum allowed) to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who routinely lambasts the federal government's decision to keep GM alive?

    Carl Pope: The Strangest Campaign Gifts of 2010 Carl Pope 2010

  • So they too should hate Gran Torino, which lambasts people who drive foreign cars, self centered suburbanites who abandoned the big city, and lost their cultural identity in the process.

    Matthew Yglesias » Conservatives’ Bizarre Readings of Gran Torino 2009

  • BOOK: She is an unreliable narrator who frequently interstitially lambasts her adult son in a most amusing manner when he attempts to make her tell the truth, or conceal it in a ladylike fashion!

    Adult Fic, I Read That Too karenhealey 2010

  • John SlingerRugby• It's all very well for David Starkey and captains of industry to criticise state education David Starkey lambasts state schools' 'waste', 10 May.

    Letters: Privilege and a university education 2011

  • On the other, she is still tied to the Republican party, which lambasts those ideas from a Christian conservative standpoint.

    Meghan McCain's cups runneth over on Twitter: Thanks for the mammaries! | EW.com 2009

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