Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A scolding.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A scolding; wordy abuse or vituperation.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
tongue lashing .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun rebuking a person harshly
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Examples
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But his incrementalist approach earned him an epic tongue-lashing from Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N. Y.):
Job-Creation Idea No. 7: Drawing A Line With China Dan Froomkin 2010
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But his incrementalist approach earned him an epic tongue-lashing from Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N. Y.):
Job-Creation Idea No. 7: Drawing A Line With China The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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And Bert gives Roger no solace when he complains about his tongue-lashing from Don.
William Bradley: Mad Men : Breach One "Chinese Wall" and You Just Want To Breach Another One An Hour Later William Bradley 2010
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And Bert gives Roger no solace when he complains about his tongue-lashing from Don.
William Bradley: Mad Men: Breach One "Chinese Wall' and You Just Want to Breach Another One an Hour Later William Bradley 2010
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And Bert gives Roger no solace when he complains about his tongue-lashing from Don.
William Bradley: Mad Men: Breach One "Chinese Wall' and You Just Want to Breach Another One an Hour Later William Bradley 2010
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And Bert gives Roger no solace when he complains about his tongue-lashing from Don.
William Bradley: Mad Men : Breach One 'Chinese Wall' and You Just Want to Breach Another One an Hour Later William Bradley 2010
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For Liverpool a night of vintage Anfield passion represented a chance to redeem themselves from Saturday's humiliation, after which they received a rare public tongue-lashing from their manager.
Newcomers help Liverpool regain their old swagger | Richard Williams 2012
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The quietly reasonable senator Menenius (Brian Cox) urges restraint, but his close friend the military leader Caius Martius (Ralph Fiennes) gives the crowd a tongue-lashing, and the police, their wall of shields resembling a Roman testudo, drive the mob away.
Coriolanus – review 2012
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Few judges subject lawyers to more than a tongue-lashing, lawyers for borrowers say.
Mired in Foreclosures Jessica Silver-Greenberg 2011
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And Bert gives Roger no solace when he complains about his tongue-lashing from Don.
William Bradley: Mad Men: Breach One "Chinese Wall' and You Just Want to Breach Another One an Hour Later William Bradley 2010
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