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Lambaste vs Criticize - What's the difference?

lambaste | criticize |

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

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

    * *

    criticize

    English

    Alternative forms

    * criticise (UK )

    Verb

    (criticiz) (transitive'' or ''intransitive )
  • to find fault (with something)
  • to evaluate (something), and judge its merits and faults
  • Hyponyms

    * find fault * shoot down * trash out * fustigate * drub * excoriate * run down

    See also

    * scold * complain