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.

Related Words

abusing

  • affronting
  • aspersing
  • assailing
  • attacking
  • bad-mouthing
  • bashing
  • beating up on
  • belaboring
  • belittling
  • berating
  • blackguarding
  • blaspheming
  • blasting
  • bleeding
  • brutalizing
  • bullying
  • burning
  • castigating
  • chastising
  • cheating
  • chiding
  • commercializing
  • commodifying
  • corrupting
  • criticizing
  • cursing
  • debasing
  • degrading
  • derogating
  • desecrating
  • disparaging
  • excoriating
  • execrating
  • exploiting
  • fleecing
  • fulminating
  • haranguing
  • harassing
  • harming
  • harrying
  • hurting
  • ill-treating
  • ill-using
  • imprecating
  • injuring
  • insult
  • insulting
  • jerking around
  • kicking around
  • lambasting
  • leveraging
  • libeling
  • libelling
  • lighting into
  • maltreating
  • manhandling
  • manipulating
  • messing over
  • milking
  • misapplying
  • misemploying
  • mishandling
  • mismanaging
  • mistreating
  • misusing
  • molesting
  • oppressing
  • outraging
  • overcharging
  • persecuting
  • perverting
  • pimping
  • potshotting
  • profaning
  • prostituting
  • putting down
  • rebuking
  • reprimanding
  • reviling
  • sailing into
  • sandbagging
  • savaging
  • scathing
  • scolding
  • skinning
  • slamming
  • slandering
  • slurring
  • soaking
  • sticking
  • taking apart
  • tormenting
  • torturing
  • trading on
  • traducing
  • trashing
  • twisting
  • tying into
  • using
  • victimizing
  • vilifying
  • violating
  • vituperating
  • walking on
  • whipping
  • working
  • wronging

bang

  • KO
  • PDQ
  • abruptly
  • amusement
  • anon
  • apace
  • arousal
  • at once
  • away
  • bar
  • bash
  • bastinade
  • bastinado
  • bat
  • batter
  • battering
  • bean
  • beat
  • beating
  • belt
  • biff
  • blare
  • blast
  • blow
  • bludgeon
  • bludgeoning
  • bob
  • body blow
  • bolt
  • bonk
  • boom
  • boot
  • bop
  • bounce
  • box
  • brain
  • briskly
  • brush
  • buffet
  • bulldoze
  • bump
  • bung
  • bunt
  • burst
  • bust
  • butt
  • buzz
  • cane
  • carom
  • chain
  • charge
  • chop
  • clamor
  • clang
  • clangor
  • clank
  • clap
  • clash
  • clatter
  • clip
  • clobber
  • clobbering
  • clock
  • close
  • clout
  • club
  • clunk
  • collide
  • conk
  • contact
  • counter
  • counterblow
  • counterpunch
  • counterstroke
  • crack
  • crash
  • cream
  • cruncher
  • cudgel
  • cudgeling
  • cudgelling
  • cuff
  • dab
  • deck
  • delectation
  • delight
  • detonate
  • detonation
  • directly
  • discharge
  • diversion
  • douse
  • drub
  • drubbing
  • drum
  • dump
  • echo
  • electrification
  • enjoyment
  • entertainment
  • exactly
  • excitement
  • exhilaration
  • explode
  • fast
  • fasten
  • fell
  • fillip
  • flail
  • fleetly
  • flick
  • flog
  • flogging
  • floor
  • forthwith
  • freely
  • frisson
  • full tilt
  • fun
  • glance
  • graze
  • hack
  • hammer
  • hammering
  • hand
  • hang one on
  • hard
  • hastily
  • haymaker
  • head-on
  • headlong
  • high
  • hit
  • hook
  • howl
  • hubbub
  • hue and cry
  • hullabaloo
  • immediately
  • impact
  • impetuously
  • impinge
  • impulsively
  • in no time
  • incontinently
  • instantaneously
  • instanter
  • instantly
  • intoxication
  • jab
  • jollies
  • jolt
  • jostle
  • joy
  • kayo
  • kick
  • kiss
  • knee
  • knock
  • knock down
  • knockdown
  • knockout
  • lace
  • lambast
  • lambaste
  • lambasting
  • land
  • larrup
  • lash
  • latch
  • left
  • level
  • lick
  • licking
  • lift
  • lock
  • make noise
  • mangle
  • maul
  • momentarily
  • muscle
  • nail
  • noisily
  • now
  • nudge
  • off the bat
  • on a dime
  • on the double
  • on the spot
  • one-two
  • opportunely
  • outcry
  • paste
  • pasting
  • peal
  • pelt
  • pepper
  • pick
  • pleasant feeling
  • pleasure
  • plumb
  • plump
  • poke
  • pommel
  • pop
  • posthaste
  • pound
  • pounding
  • precisely
  • presently
  • press
  • presto
  • prod
  • promptly
  • pronto
  • pummel
  • pummeling
  • pummelling
  • punch
  • punctually
  • push
  • quick
  • quickly
  • rabbit punch
  • rabbit-punch
  • ram
  • rap
  • rapidly
  • rashly
  • rattle
  • readily
  • rebound
  • recklessly
  • report
  • resound
  • ricochet
  • right
  • right away
  • right now
  • right off
  • right-hander
  • roar
  • roll
  • rough
  • roundhouse
  • rumble
  • rush
  • salvo
  • sap
  • scrape
  • scuff
  • seal
  • seasonably
  • secure
  • shave
  • shiver
  • shock
  • shortly
  • shot
  • shove
  • shut
  • sidewinder
  • skim
  • skip
  • skull
  • slam
  • slap
  • slash
  • sledge
  • sledgehammer
  • slog
  • slug
  • smack
  • smash
  • smite
  • snap
  • snappily
  • sock
  • soon
  • sound
  • spank
  • spear
  • speedily
  • stab
  • stamp
  • stinger
  • stop
  • straight
  • straight off
  • straightaway
  • straightway
  • strike
  • stripe
  • stroke
  • sucker punch
  • suddenly
  • surprise
  • surprize
  • swat
  • sweep
  • swift
  • swiftly
  • swing
  • swipe
  • switch
  • tag
  • tap
  • thrash
  • thrashing
  • thrill
  • thud
  • thump
  • thunder
  • thunderclap
  • thunk
  • thwack
  • titillation
  • touch
  • treat
  • tumult
  • unexpectedly
  • uppercut
  • uproar
  • wallop
  • walloping
  • welt
  • whack
  • whale
  • wham
  • whap
  • whip
  • whipping
  • whomp
  • whop
  • whump
  • wow
  • zap

banging

  • agitation
  • barring
  • bashing
  • battering
  • batting
  • beaning
  • beating
  • belting
  • biffing
  • bludgeoning
  • bobbing
  • bolting
  • bonking
  • bopping
  • bouncing
  • boxing
  • braining
  • brouhaha
  • brushing
  • buffeting
  • bulldozing
  • bumping
  • bunging
  • bunting
  • busting
  • butting
  • caning
  • caroming
  • chaining
  • chopping
  • clapping
  • clipping
  • clobbering
  • clocking
  • closing
  • clouting
  • clubbing
  • clunking
  • colliding
  • confusion
  • conking
  • contacting
  • cracking
  • crashing
  • creaming
  • cudgeling
  • cudgelling
  • cuffing
  • decking
  • dither
  • drubbing
  • dumping
  • fastening
  • felling
  • flailing
  • flicking
  • flogging
  • flooring
  • fluster
  • flutter
  • fuss
  • glancing
  • grazing
  • hammering
  • hanging one on
  • hitting
  • impacting
  • impinging
  • jabbing
  • jostling
  • kicking
  • kissing
  • kneeing
  • knocking
  • knocking down
  • lacing
  • lambasting
  • landing
  • lashing
  • latching
  • lather
  • leveling
  • levelling
  • licking
  • locking
  • mangling
  • mauling
  • muscling
  • nailing
  • nudging
  • panic
  • pasting
  • pelting
  • peppering
  • poking
  • pommeling
  • pommelling
  • pother
  • pounding
  • pressing
  • prodding
  • pummeling
  • pummelling
  • punching
  • pushing
  • rabbit-punching
  • ramming
  • rapping
  • rebounding
  • ricocheting
  • ricochetting
  • roughing
  • sapping
  • scraping
  • scuffing
  • sealing
  • securing
  • shaving
  • shoving
  • shutting
  • skimming
  • skipping
  • skulling
  • slamming
  • slapping
  • slashing
  • sledgehammering
  • sledging
  • slogging
  • slugging
  • smacking
  • smashing
  • smiting
  • socking
  • spearing
  • stabbing
  • stamping
  • state
  • stew
  • stopping
  • striking
  • stroking
  • sucker punching
  • swatting
  • sweat
  • sweeping
  • swiping
  • switching
  • tagging
  • tapping
  • thrashing
  • thudding
  • thumping
  • thwacking
  • tizzy
  • to-do
  • touching
  • tumult
  • turbulence
  • turmoil
  • twitter
  • walloping
  • whacking
  • whaling
  • whipping
  • zapping

calling down

  • abusing
  • admonishing
  • admonishment
  • admonition
  • assailing
  • attacking
  • bad-mouthing
  • basting
  • bawling out
  • bawling-out
  • belittling
  • berating
  • blame
  • blaming
  • blasting
  • castigating
  • castigation
  • censure
  • censuring
  • chastising
  • chewing out
  • chiding
  • condemning
  • criticizing
  • crucifying
  • denouncing
  • disparaging
  • dissing
  • dressing down
  • dressing-down
  • excoriating
  • faulting
  • flaying
  • grooming
  • hammering
  • haranguing
  • hard time
  • jawing
  • keelhauling
  • knocking
  • lambasting
  • lashing
  • laying into
  • lecture
  • lecturing
  • mocking
  • panning
  • putting down
  • ragging
  • rap
  • rating
  • rebuke
  • rebuking
  • reprehending
  • reprehension
  • reprimanding
  • reproaching
  • reproof
  • reproving
  • reviling
  • ridiculing
  • scoffing
  • scolding
  • scoring
  • scorning
  • scourging
  • slamming
  • slap on wrist
  • taking to task
  • talking-to
  • telling-off
  • tongue-lashing
  • upbraiding
  • vituperating
  • what for

calling to account

  • admonishing
  • bawling out
  • belittling
  • berating
  • bringing to account
  • castigating
  • censuring
  • chastising
  • chewing out
  • condemning
  • criticizing
  • cutting up
  • denouncing
  • deprecating
  • depreciating
  • disparaging
  • dressing down
  • flaying
  • gibbeting
  • jawing
  • keelhauling
  • lambasting
  • lecturing
  • objurgating
  • punishing
  • ragging
  • rating
  • rebuking
  • reprimanding
  • reproaching
  • reproving
  • scolding
  • scoring
  • telling off
  • upbraiding

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