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Inveigh vs Lambaste - What's the difference?

inveigh | lambaste |

As verbs the difference between inveigh and lambaste

is that inveigh is while lambaste is to scold, reprimand or criticize harshly.

inveigh

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • * 1860 , (William Cullen Bryant), letter, 14 Sep 1860:
    • I saw Mr. Cairns yesterday. He inveighed at great length at what he called Mr. Willis's neglect of his children, saying he had just discovered that they got no whortleberries and no fish, and that he was just beginning to send them those things.
  • * 1989 , (Jack Vance), Madouc :
    • Noblemen loyal to King Milo inveighed upon him, until at last he sent off dispatches to King Audry and King Aillas, alerting them to the peculiar rash of forays, raids and provocations current along the Lyonesse border.
  • * 1999 , (Will Hutton), The Guardian , 26 Sep 1999:
    • Only last week, three aggressively written pamphlets crossed my desk inveighing against the euro.
  • * 2011 , Elizabeth Drew, "What were they thinking?", New York Review of Books , 18 Aug 2011:
    • After the President, in a press conference in late June, inveighed against tax breaks for corporate jets, the industry quickly insisted that such a change would cost jobs.
  • (obsolete) To draw in or away; to entice, inveigle.
  • * c. 1680 , (Samuel Butler), Genuine Remains :
    • He is a Spirit, that inveighs away a Man from himself, undertakes great Matters for him, and after fells him for a Slave.

    Derived terms

    * inveigher * inveighing

    lambaste

    English

    Alternative forms

    * lambast (UK)

    Verb

    (lambast)
  • To scold, reprimand or criticize harshly.
    • The sergeant lambasted the new recruits daily.
    Her first novel was well and truly lambasted by the critics.
  • * 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]
    • 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.
  • (dated) To give a thrashing to; to beat severely.

    • Synonyms

    * (to give a thrashing to) beat, hit, thrash * (to scold or verbally reprimand) berate, scold, tell off

    Anagrams

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