Brickbat

Word BRICKBAT
Character 8
Hyphenation brick bat
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Brickbat"

What do we mean by brickbat?

A piece, especially of brick, that is used as a weapon or missile. noun

An unfavorable remark; a criticism. noun

A piece or fragment of a brick; especially, a piece of a brick used as a missile. See bat, 8. noun

To assail with pieces of brick: as, the mob brickbatted the police.

Hornblende schist, which upon weathering breaks up into rectangular blocks from three sets of joints. noun

A piece or fragment of a brick. See 1st bat, n. 4. noun

: A piece of brick used as a weapon, especially if thrown, or placed in something like a sock and used as a club. noun

A criticism or uncomplimentary remark. noun

Blunt criticism noun

A fragment of brick used as a weapon noun

A piece of brick used as a weapon, especially if thrown, or placed in something like a sock and used as a club.

A criticism or uncomplimentary remark.

1. A piece, especially of brick, used as a weapon or missile. 2. An unfavorable remark; a criticism Urban Dictionary

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The word "brickbat" in example sentences

I do not feel any dereliction of duty but do feel that your brickbat is a duffer. ❋ Unknown (2008)

To swell into the hammer-swinging hardhat who loomed in the parlor sipping vodka and orange juice, hurling brickbat words and scraps of heart shrapnel at my mother, sister and me. ❋ Thomas Pluck (2011)

As described spot-on by Timothy Garton Ash in The Guardian newspaper, "In France, genocide has become a political brickbat," Jan. 18: ... a tragedy which should be the subject for grave commemoration and free historical debate, calmly testing even wayward hypotheses against the evidence, is reduced to an instrument of political manipulation, a politician's brickbat. ❋ Yavuz Baydar (2012)

Doug Muzzio , a professor of public affairs at Baruch College, praised Mr. Stringer's report on the substance but also characterized it as a political brickbat. ❋ Michael Howard Saul (2011)

Since then, Democrats have done their best to turn this moment into a redux of the Lowden "chicken" flap -- a brickbat that they can use to hit Kasich with again and again. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The Maloney campaign plans to use Ms. Saujani's financial experience as a brickbat, aiming to take advantage of the anti-Wall Street climate. ❋ Michael Howard Saul (2010)

The word has a sexual connotation -- which, by the by -- the Tea Party movement embraced for itself before it became used as a brickbat against them. ❋ Unknown (2010)

His father was a brawling shipyard-pipe fitter, “built like a Birmingham brickbat, but lacking all the wit and modesty God gave a cobblestone.” ❋ Thomas Steinbeck (2010)

Whether you want to give us a break, bouquet or brickbat, go to our website, NPR. org, and click on Contact Us. You can also reach out to us on Twitter at NPRWeekend. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The goals were counter productive, and the huge brickbat of government took away any possibility of initiative. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Dr. Medawar accorded me only a single brickbat in his comments on my prose style. ❋ Kyall Glennie (2009)

Today, on MSNBC, the notion of "moral obligation" was offered both as a central driving principle behind reform -- and as a brickbat against the "angry" left, and their pursuit of a public option. ❋ Unknown (2009)

To chide Barack Obama and his campaign for not attacking, for not returning brickbat for brickbat is simply to feed the divisiveness, and will disserve both the candidate and, eventually, the country. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Is it the paper form of a brickbat? diktat \dik-TAHT\, noun: ❋ Inspector Gadget (2006)

Is it the paper form of a brickbat? on September 29, 2006 at 2: 05 pm | Reply Police Mummy ❋ Inspector Gadget (2006)

That [mafiosi] [hits] the guy with a [brickbat] ❋ Walpy (2009)

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