Lambaste vs Criticize - What's the difference?
lambaste | criticize |
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.
to find fault (with something)
to evaluate (something), and judge its merits and faults
As verbs the difference between lambaste and criticize
is that lambaste is to scold, reprimand or criticize harshly while criticize is to find fault (with something.lambaste
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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.