Disparage vs Lambaste - What's the difference?
disparage | lambaste |
(obsolete) Inequality in marriage; marriage with an inferior.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.8:
To match unequally; to degrade or dishonor.
To dishonor by a comparison with what is inferior; to lower in rank or estimation by actions or words; to speak slightingly of; to depreciate; to undervalue.
* Bishop Atterbury
* Milton
To ridicule, mock, discredit.
To scold, reprimand or criticize harshly.
* 2013 , Paul Harris, Lance Armstrong faces multi-million dollar legal challenges after confession'' (in ''The Guardian , 19 January 2013)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2013/jan/19/lance-armstrong-legal-challenges-confession]
(dated) To give a thrashing to; to beat severely.
As verbs the difference between disparage and lambaste
is that disparage is to match unequally; to degrade or dishonor while lambaste is to scold, reprimand or criticize harshly.As a noun disparage
is inequality in marriage; marriage with an inferior.disparage
English
Noun
(-)- But, for his meane degree might not aspire / To match so high, her friends with counsell sage / Dissuaded her from such a disparage […].
Verb
(disparag)- those forbidding appearances which sometimes disparage the actions of men sincerely pious
- Thou durst not thus disparage glorious arms.
See also
* vilipend * belittle * denigrate * excoriateExternal links
* * *lambaste
English
Alternative forms
* lambast (UK)Verb
(lambast)- The sergeant lambasted the new recruits daily.
- Her first novel was well and truly lambasted by the critics.
- Indeed, part of the problem was that Armstrong was rowing back on so much previous behaviour and years of aggressive lambasting of reporters, officials and team-mates who had claimed he was doping. "I don't forgive Lance Armstrong, who lied to me in two interviews. And I suspect most of America won't, either," Kurtz wrote.
