lambaste
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It’s one thing for Mamdani supporters to imbibe “eat the rich” rhetoric, it’s another to lambaste small-time shopkeepers as greedy exploiters when they are the backbone of neighborhood food provision and cultural cohesion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
Gaetz, as a man, appears to be widely detested by his former colleagues, given the number willing to publicly lambaste him.
From Salon ● Nov. 14, 2024
I arranged the interview because I wanted to check in on a politician I’ve been friendly with for years yet didn’t hesitate to lambaste after her accident.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2024
No—Ackman’s saved his invective to lambaste perceived wrongdoings at Harvard, instead.
From Slate ● Dec. 14, 2023
True, the students didn't lambaste Ian and Randy that year as they had in the past, however, in a way, they were just as bad.
From Wild Justice by Ruth M. Sprague
Schwab’s recent correspondence lambasts the Forum’s board for deploying money and using advisers to diminish his legacy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
In his 1989 journal article "Feminism, the Body, and the Machine," Berry lambasts the era's burgeoning tech revolution with jarring prescience:
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2023
Jamil often lambasts or reframes the negative narratives that articles perpetuate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2020
No punishment for Hearts, says SPL Brown focuses on Division One future Brown to continue as Dundee boss Brown lambasts penalty decision 43.
From BBC ● May 21, 2013
In the rest of his article, he lambasts them for tax avoidance and evasion, not paying fair wages, etc.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 8, 2010
It was then that Tuchel may well have given the game away when he heaped praise on England's mentality but lambasted their lack of quality.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
David spoke about the outrageous audition process for “Curb,” wherein actors tried to navigate a brief written scenario without any dialogue to guide them as David lambasted them in character.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2026
In 2019, he publicly lambasted authorities for their handling of the pro-democracy protests.
From Barron's ● Apr. 7, 2026
He has drawn allegations of corruption—which he has denied—and been lambasted for allegedly amassing personal wealth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026
When I used to thry and sing in choorch, the ould gintleman always lambasted me for filing the saw on Sunday.
From The Cave in the Mountain A Sequel to In the Pecos Country / by Lieut. R. H. Jayne by Edward Sylvester Ellis
Instead, Pelley interrupted Bilton early in his remarks, questioning the producer’s qualifications and lambasting Weiss’s leadership decisions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026
"On the way out, some of the prisoners came out of their cells and started lambasting the away side for losing the game," Tony says.
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2026
Emirati presidential advisor Anwar Gargash has condemned the atrocities in El-Fasher and expressed concern for Sudan’s unity, lambasting last week what he called "fake news" about any involvement by the UAE in Sudan.
From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2025
More than 100 one-star reviews were left on her business’ Yelp page this week, with reviewers lambasting her remarks at the gala.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2025
Among the letters lambasting McCandless, virtually all those I received mentioned his misidentification of the caribou as proof that he didn’t know the first thing about surviving in the back- country.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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