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
The notoriously acerbic Chancellor did not tongue-lash his guest, and discussion about the neutron bomb was kept short.
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
Then Stalin went on to tongue-lash his top aides, there present at the table.
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
