noun
definition
A piece of brick used as a weapon, especially if thrown, or placed in something like a sock and used as a club.
definition
A criticism or uncomplimentary remark.
verb
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To attack by throwing brickbats.
definition
To assail with criticism.
Examples of brickbats in a Sentence
But I do like to praise good service and I am not slow to throw brickbats if the service is poor.
The brave US gets brickbats, but it is right.
Peter Ridsdale has hardly been a rock of support, criticizing results, hurling brickbats at O'Leary and talking of offloading players.
Horsley suffered further brickbats, accused of almost completely ignoring unpublished materials and of providing nothing in the way of introduction or notes.
But a number of proposed amendments also received brickbats from certain quarters.
In Tonbridge in 1880 there was a full-scale riot during which eggs, stones and brickbats were thrown at the police.
That stance led to equal praise and brickbats, and much subsequent punditry about why we canât ever bring ourselves to support England.