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brickbat
[ brik-bat ]
noun
- a piece of broken brick, especially one used as a missile.
- any rocklike missile.
- an unkind or unfavorable remark; caustic criticism:
The critics greeted the play with brickbats.
brickbat
/ ˈ²ú°ùɪ°ìËŒ²úæ³Ù /
noun
- a piece of brick or similar material, esp one used as a weapon
- blunt criticism
the critic threw several brickbats at the singer
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Example Sentences
Unlike a signed bill or a freshly inked executive order, there's rarely one name at which observers can launch their hosannas and brickbats.
But functioning democracies require people willing to enter public life and take with it the brickbats that follow.
Roos also expressed admiration: “Every day people around him were throwing brickbats at him, saying: “Why are you doing this?
We can become cynical or angry and just throw brickbats.
He drew brickbats from none other than George Bernard Shaw after trying to shut down a New York production of Shaw’s “Mrs. Warren’s Profession.â€
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