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Meanings of lambast in English
Synonyms
Examples for "jaw"
Examples for "jaw"
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I could tell by the way his jaw started working double time.
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But Brun's set jaw and hard look of determination left no doubt.
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I really want to have a future my jaw hit the floor.
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McAuliffe's words landed like a roundhouse right on the Clintons' collective jaw.
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The set of her jaw told him everything Dougal needed to know.
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Alexander's lecture will call for reform in Europe, not exit from Europe.
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To be honest: An unheard voice in education:I lecture in higher education.
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Professor Pumfrey's lecture will examine current concerns, promising practices and future trends.
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And the final lecture reduces Thoreau's text to letters and silences, beginning:
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The Soviet meets in the small lecture theatre of the old Polytechnic.
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She dropped the rag when raised voices sounded from the main house.
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Number Nine, voiced by Elijah Woods, leads the rag dolls to survival.
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Over the past 20 years the rag-and-bone trade has had a makeover.
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Funny really, seeing as the rest of us was in rag order.
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He pushed aside the rag, stared to the south for a moment.
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He said that Mr O'Malley's immediate public rebuke was unacceptable to him.
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The South African government issued a swift rebuke and summoned US officials.
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Democratic politicians also waded in to rebuke McCain's politicisation of the issue.
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Obstinacy in error is often a rebuke to tremulous faith in God.
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The music in the tones of the answer was a vocal rebuke.
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As soon as you leave, she'll be free to scold me again.
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Then the Queen began to scold the little lady, and to say:
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I wondered why she didn't scold me for being gone so long.
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Burtson conjured the words as a scold, but they emerged more plealike.
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Now they have something really to scold us about; but never mind.
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She inflicted reproof in the present without excluding hope in the future.
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The latter seemed hurt by the reproof; but it left him thoughtful.
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She looks at the intruder as much in reproof as in surprise.
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Further accounts given in this chapter prove the injustice of the reproof.
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He said this in gentle reproof of his spirited daughter; and then,-
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On the crime sheet; up against a reprimand; on trial, in trouble.
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The position of the Air Force was made clear in the reprimand:
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An intense look from a leader, for example, could be a reprimand.
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The Pentagon could have sought to further reprimand Petraeus under military law.
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With forced resignation, he waited for the reprimand he knew would come.
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She attempted to remonstrate; she spoke of the perils of the journey.
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I almost stopped to remonstrate, but then wisely thought better of it.
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Both players were seen to remonstrate with the referee after the match.
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It is for the Holy Father to remonstrate, if he thinks best.
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I only tell you this, in case you feel inclined to remonstrate.
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Even attempts to chide Trump for insulting others come across as hollow.
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And for once in her life his daughter did not chide him.
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And then I chide myself-why do my thoughts always turn to Rupert?
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He did it out of love and we must not chide him.
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The river hurried on meanwhile, and seemed to chide at our delay.
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Mickelson's fellow players did not exactly wait in line to berate him.
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Pretend-berate people in public to see how your game is holding up.
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Both images continued to yell at and berate him, moving closer still.
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Brother started forward, stalking the king as Erius continued to berate Tobin.
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Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either.
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We are both hard-working, well-organised teams who rarely trounce or get trounced.
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But keep your grimy hands off my Rabelais, or I'll trounce you.
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For if you do, I'll trounce you for it, do you hear?
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Never again should we allow a comforting falsehood to trounce a painful truth.
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I think they only ask me to play so they can trounce me.
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Sounds fishy-butif it's so somebody ought to lambaste the old man.
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The president used his campaign-style gathering to again lambaste the media.
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Maybe we will call each other privately, quietly and lament, lambaste.
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I'll lambaste dat coon when I gits him, so I will.
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They lambaste impartially and with a certain Irish delight in doing the job thoroughly.
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I'll tell Mark to dress down a bit and it'll be fine.
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I swallowed, hands shaking as I pushed her dress down her hips.
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No matter what you choose to do I would say overall dress down.
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In Paris, the elite traditionally used to dress down to fraternise.
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She got up from the ground and smoothed her dress down.
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There was a call down the deck, a knock at the door.
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Afterwards, you call down to the spa for an invigorating body wrap.
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Such a punishment James and John would call down on the Samaritans.
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Did you call down Heaven's vengeance on the murderer in approved fashion?
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It is a bad thing to call down a crisis in the night-time.
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With the pack on our back we must bawl out: 'Liberty forever!'
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Catching sight of the druggist in the crowd, he stopped to bawl out:
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Then he began to bawl out as loudly as he could for help.
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The fat man with the megaphone would bawl out, 'Hicky Bloo!'
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My answer is to bawl out: 'I don't want to be a brave soldier.
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Stauer was about to chew out his long-time friend, viciously.
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Jamie Cloncurry was going to bite into Lizzie's neck, and chew out her jugular.
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Remind me to chew out whoever left this mess.
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You chew out Blonde for running off at the mouth, yet she didn't say anything dangerous to us.
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Canfield spat chew out on the grated floor of the Pelican and shouted, "Lock and load Helljumpers!".
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These he used to chew up dinners heavily dependent on seal meat.
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With them out of the way we'll simply chew up the rest.
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Also chance that rats will swim across and chew up the exhibits.
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Longer commutes chew up time available for leading or contributing to community endeavours.
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But you'll chew up a lot of power feeding that habit.
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Eric and I had been literally called on the carpet.
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He didn't like being called on the carpet, or being accountable for his behavior.
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I'm not going to be called on the carpet for giving you a sniffle.
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Caird was called on the carpet by his boss.
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Oppenheimer was called on the carpet.
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But maybe you and your old man have words now and again?
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Ever before have words of love for me fallen from your lips?
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We just didn't have words to label this form of discrimination.
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Andy's father had wanted to go down to Bryn's house to have words.
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Well, I shall have words if you don't answer the door.
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This is a tactical error for which I'm immediately taken to task.
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Then shall ye on that day be taken to task concerning pleasures.
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It remains to be seen whether he's taken to task on this one.
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I have been taken to task for not accepting Labour's civil union Bill.
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I am not accustomed to be taken to task so sharply.
Usage of lambast in English
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The US president took to Twitter to lambast bitcoin and its ilk.
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Therefore it was surprising to hear Houllier lambast Steven Gerrard in the aftermath.
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He got him down and started to lambast the Judas out of him.
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Hallmark cards axes 106 jobs in New Zealand and Principals lambast ministry spending.
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Critics lambast adventure literature for trumpeting colonialist white supremacy propaganda too.
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It also took occasion to "lambast" Constable Foss with great severity.
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He used his speech to lambast the American president for his persistent threats to 'annihilate' North Korea.
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EFF leaders reject the Springboks They instead chose to lambast the Springboks for historical and political issues.
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Suleiman took to satellite television to lambast Maliki and what he called the prime minister's Iranian backers.
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Ready to lambast us to any pole.
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The thing that troubled me was the fear that Henry would begin too soon to lambast onion soup.
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Others were there to lambast the legal system, knowing that their abusers got off scot-free after hurting them.
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Then he continued to lambast her.
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The names only crop up if he wants to lambast them but the public has not forgotten these people.
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It's clear Mitchell is enjoying himself in his new role as commentator, free to lambast all his pet hates.
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Your apology is insulting, redacted, bullshit and promised to use his Sunday night podcast to lambast the airline further.
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Translations for lambast
Lambast through the time