lambaste
Verb
- beat with a cane
- Synonyms
- Less specific
- Related
- whipping
- tanning
- flogging
- lashing
- flagellation
- cane
- censure severely or angrily; “The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger’s car”; “The deputy ragged the Prime Minister”; “The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup”
- Synonyms
- call on the carpet
- take to task
- rebuke
- rag
- trounce
- lecture
- reprimand
- jaw
- dress down
- call down
- scold
- chide
- berate
- bawl out
- remonstrate
- chew out
- chew up
- have words
- lambast
- Less specific
- knock
- criticize
- criticise
- pick apart
- More specific
- chastise
- castigate
- objurgate
- chasten
- correct
- tell off
- brush down
- Related
- chiding
- scolding
- objurgation
- tongue-lashing
- scold
- scolder
- nag
- nagger
- common scold
- chiding
- scolding
- objurgation
- tongue-lashing
- rebuke
- reproof
- reproval
- reprehension
- reprimand
- lecture
- speech
- talking to
- upbraider
- reprover
- reproacher
- rebuker
- rebuke
- reproof
- reproval
- reprehension
- reprimand
- criticize (someone or something) harshly
they lambasted the report as a gross distortion of the truth