tongue-lash
Example Sentences
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After Huie denounced Wallace on a lecture tour in 1964, the Governor went on television to tongue-lash the writer.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sometimes their officers had to tongue-lash them into action.
From Time Magazine Archive
The closing of Congress gave Senator Pat Harrison some fine opportunities to tongue-lash Republicans, and he was not slow to seize his opportunities.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was, as Clara Zetkin well knew, her last grand chance to tongue-lash her ancient enemy Paul von Hindenburg, 84 and unrejuvenated.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet bravely he strove again to give tongue-lash for tongue-lash—by reaching out one palsied hand toward his weapon.
From The Poor Little Rich Girl by Gates, Eleanor
