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Examples
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She went to Ottawa, Canada, and tongue-lashed our closest allies.
Ken Blackwell: Aborting the Monroe Doctrine? Ken Blackwell 2011
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Its top executives were tongue-lashed by President Barack Obama and put through the congressional meat grinder.
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He had tongue-lashed them for not conducting a more aggressive investigation.
Devil Dog David Talbot 2010
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He had already tongue-lashed his brother for sending down a third party to look into their holdings in Aurora.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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He had already tongue-lashed his brother for sending down a third party to look into their holdings in Aurora.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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He unsparingly tongue-lashed Birtukan Midekssa, the iconic Ethiopian political prisoner and first female political party leader in Ethiopia's 3,000-year history.
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Inside the GOP caucus, the Arizonan has often tongue-lashed his colleagues for selling out conservative free-market principles in order to bring pork to their states.
A Very Human Hero 2008
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If the answers do not come fast and please Mr. Chávez, the officials are tongue-lashed and humiliated before the nation, as scores of red-shirted "community organizers" look on jeering.
Masterpiece Man 2008
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In 1989, he tongue-lashed several senators for changing their votes on the nomination of his friend John Tower to be secretary of Defense.
'White Tornado' 2008
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He tongue-lashed single mothers in Atlanta for having sex within their children's hearing "and then four days later, you bring another man into the house."
DOES COSBY HELP? 2007
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