lambasted

[ lam-bey-stid, -ba- ]

adjective

1. having been strongly or severely criticized:

   Unfortunately, a very weak script and lackluster direction resulted in a critically lambasted film and poor box office.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of lambaste ( def ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of lambasted¹

lambaste ( def ) + -ed ²( def )

Example Sentences

When his Twilight movies got lambasted, “that was more expected,” he says.

From The Daily Beast

During the 2012 battle between Hamas and Israel, Stewart lambasted the media for its obsession with declaring a “winner.”

From The Daily Beast

He lambasted the NSA for its over-zealous data grabs, and its unrestrained eavesdropping on average Americans.

From The Daily Beast

Snowden was lambasted as the most dangerous leaker in U.S. history.

From The Daily Beast

The Israeli cabinet minister lambasted the potential deal as giving Iran $40 billion in sanctions relief.

From The Daily Beast

To be lambasted with a dried codfish was such an unheard-of thing that Rilla could not face it.

From Project Gutenberg

Im thoroughly lambasted and convinced and mighty glad of it.

From Project Gutenberg

You just laid for that one, and lambasted it out where the buttercups and daisies grow.

From Project Gutenberg

I have added to my unpopularity by the manner in which I lambasted the repressionist element in the campaign just closed.

From Project Gutenberg

When I used to thry and sing in choorch, the ould gintleman always lambasted me for filing the saw on Sunday.

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