lambasting

The word “lambasting” has 3 syllables: lam-bas-ting

It's pronounced as /ˈlæmˌbæstɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for lambasting?

In the thesaurus, “lambasting” has 233 synonyms and 32 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for lambasting along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for lambasting

  • abuse
  • abusing
  • admonishing
  • admonishment
  • admonition
  • affronting
  • aspersing
  • assailing
  • assault
  • assaulting
  • attack
  • attacking
  • bad-mouthing
  • bashing
  • basting
  • battering
  • batting
  • bawling out
  • bawling-out
  • beating
  • beating up on
  • belaboring
  • belittlement
  • belittling
  • belting
  • berating
  • besetting
  • birching
  • blackguarding
  • blackjacking
  • blaming
  • blaspheming
  • blasting
  • blow
  • bludgeoning
  • boxing
  • broadside
  • buffet
  • buffeting
  • bump
  • bunging up
  • busting
  • calling down
  • caning
  • castigating
  • castigation
  • censure
  • censuring
  • chastising
  • chewing out
  • chiding
  • chopping
  • clobbering
  • clouting
  • clubbing
  • collision
  • concussion
  • condemnation
  • condemning
  • contact
  • cowhiding
  • cracking
  • crash
  • criticism
  • criticizing
  • crucifying
  • cudgeling
  • cudgelling
  • cuffing
  • currying
  • cursing
  • denouncing
  • denunciation
  • deprecation
  • depreciation
  • diatribe
  • disparagement
  • disparaging
  • dissing
  • doing
  • dressing down
  • drubbing
  • encounter
  • excoriating
  • excoriation
  • execrating
  • execration
  • faulting
  • fibbing
  • flagellating
  • flaying
  • flogging
  • fulminating
  • fustigating
  • goring
  • hammering
  • harangue
  • haranguing
  • harassing
  • harrying
  • hiding
  • hit
  • hitting
  • horsewhipping
  • impact
  • impingement
  • imprecating
  • insulting
  • invective
  • jar
  • jawing
  • jeremiad
  • jolt
  • jounce
  • keelhauling
  • kick
  • knock
  • knocking
  • lacerating
  • lacing
  • lamming
  • lashing
  • lathering
  • laying into
  • laying on
  • leathering
  • lecture
  • lecturing
  • libeling
  • libelling
  • licking
  • lighting into
  • maiming
  • mangling
  • mauling
  • meeting
  • mocking
  • mutilating
  • paddling
  • panning
  • pasting
  • pelting
  • philippic
  • pistol-whipping
  • pommeling
  • pommelling
  • potshotting
  • pounding
  • profaning
  • pummeling
  • pummelling
  • punch
  • punching
  • punching out
  • putting down
  • ragging
  • raiding
  • rant
  • rap
  • rating
  • rawhiding
  • rebuke
  • rebuking
  • reprehending
  • reprimand
  • reprimanding
  • reproach
  • reproaching
  • reproof
  • reproving
  • revilement
  • reviling
  • ridiculing
  • rushing
  • sailing into
  • savaging
  • scathing
  • scoffing
  • scolding
  • scoring
  • scorning
  • scourging
  • sermon
  • shock
  • slam
  • slamming
  • slandering
  • slap
  • slapping
  • slating
  • slogging
  • slurring
  • smacking
  • smash
  • smashing
  • socking
  • spanking
  • storming
  • strapping
  • strike
  • swatting
  • swiping
  • switching
  • taking to task
  • tanning
  • thrashing
  • threshing
  • thump
  • thumping
  • thwacking
  • tirade
  • tongue-lashing
  • touch
  • traducing
  • trashing
  • tromping
  • tying into
  • upbraiding
  • vilifying
  • vituperating
  • vituperation
  • wallop
  • walloping
  • whacking
  • whaling
  • whamming
  • whapping
  • whipping
  • whomping
  • whopping
  • whupping
  • working over
  • wounding

Antonyms for lambasting

Example Sentences

  • Lambasting the government's decision, the opposition called for immediate action.
  • The critics didn't hold back, lambasting the film for its lack of originality.
  • After the scandal broke, the media began lambasting the company's CEO for his involvement.
  • The coach delivered a fiery speech, lambasting the team for their careless mistakes.
  • Despite the warnings, he continued lambasting his colleagues in public, causing tension in the workplace.

On this page you'll find 265 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to lambasting, such as: abuse, abusing, acclaim, acclaiming, acclamation, accolade, admonishing.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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  • enthusiast
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  • lambasting
  • larrup
  • lash
  • lay
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  • layer
  • left
  • lick
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  • little
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  • maestro
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  • minimum
  • mistress
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  • modicum
  • molecule
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  • mote
  • nibble
  • nip
  • nubbin
  • nudge
  • one-two
  • ounce
  • overlay
  • overlie
  • overspread
  • palm
  • palp
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  • paring
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  • pounding
  • pro
  • professional
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  • pummelling
  • punch
  • push
  • rabbit punch
  • rap
  • ray
  • right
  • right-hander
  • roundhouse
  • scattering
  • scholar
  • scintilla
  • scrap
  • scruple
  • section
  • semblance
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  • shark
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  • sliver
  • slug
  • smack
  • smash
  • smatter
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  • smear
  • smell
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  • smidgen
  • smidgeon
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  • smithereens
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  • sock
  • spank
  • spark
  • spatter
  • specialist
  • speck
  • splash
  • splinter
  • spot
  • spread
  • sprinkling
  • stab
  • stick
  • stinger
  • stipple
  • strain
  • streak
  • stripe
  • stroke
  • sucker punch
  • surface
  • suspicion
  • swab
  • swat
  • swing
  • swipe
  • switch
  • syllable
  • tad
  • tag
  • tap
  • taste
  • tatter
  • thrashing
  • thud
  • thump
  • thwack
  • tip
  • tittle
  • touch
  • trace
  • uppercut
  • vestige
  • virtuoso
  • wallop
  • walloping
  • welt
  • whack
  • wham
  • whap
  • whip
  • whipping
  • whit
  • whiz
  • whop
  • wipe
  • wizard

damning

  • abhorring
  • abominating
  • adjudging
  • admonishing
  • adverse
  • anathematizing
  • apocalyptic
  • apocalyptical
  • attacking
  • baleful
  • baneful
  • belittling
  • berating
  • blacklisting
  • blaming
  • blasting
  • calamitous
  • castigating
  • cataclysmal
  • cataclysmic
  • catastrophic
  • censuring
  • chastening
  • chastising
  • chiding
  • concluding
  • condemning
  • convicting
  • correcting
  • criticizing
  • cursing
  • damaging
  • damnatory
  • deciding
  • decreeing
  • decrying
  • deleterious
  • denouncing
  • deprecating
  • destructive
  • determining
  • detesting
  • detrimental
  • disastrous
  • disciplining
  • disparaging
  • dispraising
  • dissing
  • dooming
  • evil
  • excommunicating
  • execrating
  • fatal
  • fateful
  • faulting
  • finding
  • hapless
  • harmful
  • hating
  • hurtful
  • ill
  • ill-fated
  • ill-starred
  • imprecating
  • incriminating
  • injurious
  • judging
  • knocking
  • lambasting
  • loathing
  • luckless
  • maledicting
  • noxious
  • opining
  • ostracizing
  • panning
  • penalizing
  • pernicious
  • prejudicial
  • punishing
  • raking
  • rebuking
  • reprehending
  • reprimanding
  • reproaching
  • reprobating
  • reproving
  • resolving
  • reviling
  • ruinous
  • ruling
  • scolding
  • sentencing
  • slamming
  • unfortunate
  • upbraiding
  • vituperating

hack

  • KO
  • abide
  • absorb
  • accept
  • acquiesce
  • address
  • allow
  • amateur
  • arid
  • banal
  • bang
  • barren
  • bash
  • bastinade
  • bastinado
  • bat
  • battering
  • bear
  • beat
  • beating
  • beginner
  • belt
  • bide
  • biff
  • blow
  • bludgeoning
  • body blow
  • bop
  • boring
  • box
  • bring off
  • bromidic
  • brook
  • buffet
  • bust
  • cab
  • canned
  • capitulate
  • cardboard
  • carriage
  • carry off
  • carry out
  • chip
  • chop
  • clap
  • cliche
  • clip
  • clobbering
  • clout
  • coach
  • cobwebby
  • colorless
  • come to grips with
  • command
  • commonplace
  • control
  • conventional
  • cookie-cutter
  • countenance
  • counter
  • counterblow
  • counterpunch
  • counterstroke
  • crack
  • cruncher
  • cudgeling
  • cudgelling
  • cuff
  • dab
  • derivative
  • direct
  • douse
  • drab
  • dreary
  • drubbing
  • drudge
  • drudging
  • dry
  • dull
  • dusty
  • endure
  • engineer
  • fell
  • field
  • fillip
  • finesse
  • flat
  • flogging
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  • gharry
  • go
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  • ho-hum
  • hook
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  • imitative
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  • inexpert
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  • jitney
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  • joggle
  • kayo
  • kerf
  • kick
  • kid
  • knee
  • knock
  • knockdown
  • knockout
  • lacerate
  • lackey
  • lambasting
  • larrup
  • lash
  • leaden
  • learner
  • left
  • lick
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  • limousine
  • live with
  • manage
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  • mangle
  • manipulate
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  • mind-numbing
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  • musty
  • mutilate
  • negotiate
  • neophyte
  • newcomer
  • nick
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  • normal
  • notch
  • novice
  • numbing
  • obligatory
  • old
  • old hat
  • old pro
  • old-fashioned
  • one-two
  • ordinary
  • pasting
  • pedantic
  • pedestrian
  • pelt
  • permit
  • pick
  • platitudinal
  • platitudinous
  • play
  • plodder
  • plump
  • pocket
  • poke
  • ponderous
  • pound
  • pounding
  • pro
  • prosaic
  • pull
  • pummeling
  • pummelling
  • punch
  • rabbit punch
  • rap
  • ready-made
  • regulate
  • respect
  • ricksha
  • rickshaw
  • right
  • right-hander
  • rookie
  • rote
  • roundhouse
  • routine
  • run
  • score
  • shiver
  • shopworn
  • sidewinder
  • slam
  • slap
  • slash
  • slit
  • slot
  • slug
  • smack
  • smash
  • snip
  • sock
  • spank
  • stale
  • stand
  • stand for
  • standard
  • steer
  • stereotyped
  • stick out
  • stinger
  • stock
  • stodgy
  • stomach
  • stripe
  • stroke
  • stuffy
  • sucker punch
  • suffer
  • support
  • sustain
  • swallow
  • swat
  • sweat out
  • swing
  • swipe
  • switch
  • take
  • tame
  • taxi
  • taxicab
  • tedious
  • tenderfoot
  • thrashing
  • threadbare
  • thud
  • thump
  • thwack
  • timeworn
  • tired
  • tiresome
  • tiring
  • tolerate
  • tough it out
  • treat
  • tried-and-true
  • trifler
  • trite
  • twice-told
  • typical
  • tyro
  • undercut
  • undramatic
  • unimaginative
  • uninspired
  • uninteresting
  • unoriginal
  • uppercut
  • usual
  • vapid
  • vehicle
  • wallop
  • walloping
  • water taxi
  • wear
  • wearisome
  • weary
  • wearying
  • well-worn
  • welt
  • whack
  • wham
  • whap
  • whip
  • whipping
  • whop
  • workhorse

jar

  • agitate
  • altercate
  • amazement
  • annoy
  • argue
  • argufy
  • bandy words
  • bang
  • bashing
  • basin
  • battering
  • battle
  • beaker
  • bicker
  • blast
  • bleat
  • blow
  • bludgeoning
  • bolt from the blue
  • bolt out of the blue
  • bombshell
  • bottle
  • bounce
  • brabble
  • brawl
  • bray
  • buffet
  • bump
  • burette
  • butt heads
  • can
  • cavil
  • chafe
  • chalice
  • challenge
  • clang
  • clangor
  • clank
  • clash
  • clobbering
  • collide
  • collision
  • combat
  • concussion
  • conflict
  • consider
  • contact
  • contend
  • contest
  • controvert
  • convulse
  • crash
  • creak
  • croak
  • crock
  • cruet
  • dare
  • debate
  • decanter
  • defy
  • differ
  • disaccord
  • disagree
  • discompose
  • discord
  • discuss
  • dispute
  • dissent
  • disturb
  • encounter
  • engage
  • ewer
  • eye-opener
  • fall out
  • fight
  • fillip
  • flagon
  • flask
  • fuss
  • gall
  • gargle
  • grate
  • grind
  • hammering
  • hassle
  • hit
  • impact
  • impingement
  • interfere
  • irk
  • irritate
  • jangle
  • jaw-dropper
  • jerk
  • jiggle
  • jolt
  • jounce
  • jug
  • jump
  • kick
  • kicker
  • knock
  • lambasting
  • licking
  • lock horns
  • marvel
  • meeting
  • mismatch
  • mix it up
  • nettle
  • nitpick
  • object
  • offend
  • oppose
  • outrage
  • pitcher
  • pot
  • pounding
  • protest
  • pummeling
  • pummelling
  • punch
  • quake
  • quarrel
  • quibble
  • rap
  • rasp
  • rattle
  • revelation
  • rock
  • row
  • scrap
  • scrape
  • scratch
  • screech
  • scuff
  • shake
  • shock
  • shocker
  • slam
  • slap
  • smash
  • spat
  • squabble
  • strike
  • stunner
  • succussion
  • surprise
  • surprize
  • tangle
  • thrashing
  • thud
  • thump
  • thunderclap
  • tiff
  • touch
  • tremor
  • tun
  • twist
  • urn
  • vase
  • vat
  • vessel
  • vibrate
  • wallop
  • wiggle
  • wobble
  • wonder
  • wrangle
  • wrinkle

kayo

  • KO
  • TKO
  • X out
  • abolish
  • annihilate
  • annul
  • bang
  • bash
  • bastinade
  • bastinado
  • bat
  • battering
  • beat
  • beating
  • belt
  • biff
  • black out
  • blot out
  • blow
  • bludgeon
  • bludgeoning
  • blue pencil
  • body blow
  • bop
  • box
  • buffet
  • bust
  • call all bets off
  • call off
  • cancel
  • chop
  • clap
  • clip
  • clobber
  • clobbering
  • clout
  • cold pack
  • coldcock
  • counter
  • counterblow
  • counterpunch
  • counterstroke
  • coup de grace
  • crack
  • cruncher
  • cudgeling
  • cudgelling
  • cuff
  • cut
  • dab
  • delete
  • discard
  • do in
  • douse
  • down
  • drop
  • drubbing
  • efface
  • eradicate
  • erase
  • exclude
  • exterminate
  • extinguish
  • extirpate
  • fell
  • fillip
  • final blow
  • finishing blow
  • flogging
  • floor
  • gut
  • hack
  • hammer
  • hammering
  • hamstring
  • hand
  • haymaker
  • hearts and flowers
  • hit
  • hook
  • jab
  • kick
  • kill
  • knee
  • knock
  • knock down
  • knock off
  • knock out
  • knock over
  • knock senseless
  • knockdown
  • knockout
  • knockout blow
  • lambasting
  • larrup
  • lash
  • launder
  • lay out
  • left
  • level
  • lick
  • licking
  • omit
  • one-two
  • overthrow
  • paste
  • pasting
  • pelt
  • pick
  • plump
  • poke
  • pound
  • pounding
  • prostrate
  • pummeling
  • pummelling
  • punch
  • rabbit punch
  • rap
  • raze
  • remove
  • right
  • right-hander
  • roundhouse
  • scrub
  • shiver
  • sidewinder
  • slam
  • slap
  • slog
  • slug
  • smack
  • smash
  • smite
  • sock
  • spank
  • stinger
  • strike out
  • stripe
  • stroke
  • sucker punch
  • swat
  • swing
  • swipe
  • switch
  • take out
  • technical knockout
  • thrashing
  • throw down
  • thud
  • thump
  • thwack
  • topple
  • trim
  • uppercut
  • wallop
  • walloping
  • welt
  • whack
  • whale
  • wham
  • whap
  • whip
  • whipping
  • whop
  • wipe out
  • zap

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