Today’s word of the day is ‘Brickbat.’ Let us understand more about this word.
[responsivevoice] Brikbat [/responsivevoice] [ brik-bat ]
No, the word is a noun. Therefore, it does not have a past form.
It means:
1. Affront
2. Provocation
3. Blunt criticism
4. Insult
1. Hindi – Roda
2. Spanish -Trozo de ladrillo
3. French – Morceau de brique
4. Mandarin – Suì zhuān
1. The young lady would not brickbat him by refusing to take some syrup.
2. Well, Pat, Jimmy didn’t quite kill you with a brickbat, did he?
3. The candidates resorted to hurling brickbats at one another.
4. The president has received many brickbats in the press recently.
5. We are successful, but success brings brickbats.Some synonyms of the word are:
indignity, provocation, slight, abuse, injury, offence, outrage, vexation, denunciation, objection, disparagement, faultfinding etc.
Some antonyms of the word are:
approval, compliment, flattery, praise, sanction, estimation, guess, supposition etc.
Quotation:
‘Posh’ is not really political. I didn’t want to aim a brickbat at the system. Or to bash Old Etonians. It was always the class and privilege aspect of that world that I was most drawn to. There is something endlessly fascinating about imagining something you could never be involved in.
Laura Wade
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