Usually means: Harsh, critical verbal scolding, reprimand.
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  1. tongue-lashing: Merriam-Webster
  2. tongue-lashing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tongue-lashing: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tongue-lashing, tongue-lashing, tongue lashing: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tongue-lashing: Vocabulary.com
  6. tongue-lashing: Wordnik
  7. tongue-lashing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. tongue-lashing, tongue lashing: Wiktionary
  9. tongue-lashing: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. tongue-lashing: Dictionary.com
  11. tongue-lashing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. tongue-lashing: Rhymezone
  13. tongue-lashing: FreeDictionary.org
  14. tongue-lashing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. tongue-lashing: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. tongue-lashing: Legal dictionary

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  1. tongue-lashing: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (tongue lashing)

▸ noun:  A verbal rebuke, often severe.

Similar:
tongue-lashing, licking, tonguing, tongue bath, tonguejob, tonguefuck, tongue-bath, tonguey, tongue-boring, talking-to, more...

Opposite:
praise, compliment, commendation

Types:
scolding, berating, reprimand, dressing down, more...

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Similar:
tongue-lashing, licking, tonguing, tongue bath, tonguejob, tonguefuck, tongue-bath, tonguey, tongue-boring, talking-to, more...

Opposite:
praise, compliment, commendation

Types:
scolding, berating, reprimand, dressing down, more...



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