brickbats

Example Sentences

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That 2,700-page doorstop, the fruit of 750 “editor-years,” was greeted with brickbats on its appearance in 1961.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 14, 2025

We can become cynical or angry and just throw brickbats.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 16, 2023

He drew brickbats from none other than George Bernard Shaw after trying to shut down a New York production of Shaw’s “Mrs. Warren’s Profession.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2023

Public referendums have become the civic brickbats of anti-Olympics activists.

From Washington Post • Jul. 9, 2021

Eisenhower offered to reappoint him for a new term, but Strauss had grown weary of dodging brickbats in Washington.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik