Word to the Wise: Lambaste
by ETR (06/12/2008)
To "lambaste" (lam-BAYST) is to beat or scold severely.
Example (as used by Noboru Yoshimura and Philip Anderson in Inside the Kaisha): "Evening after evening, Hiro and his teammates were lambasted for their failures and shortcomings."
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