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Definition of pasting in English: pastingnoun ˈpeɪstɪŋˈpeɪstɪŋ informal A severe beating or defeat. 〈非正式〉痛击，痛打；惨败 another pasting for England's bowlers 英格兰队板球投球手遭受的又一次惨败。 Example sentencesExamples - In fact, the highest-rated hour of Game Six came after Arizona had all but run away with the game, almost as if America was taking some sort of sick pleasure at watching the Yankees take a pasting.
- We took an absolute pasting and had to make two or three redundancies.
- Don't try eating a baked potato on the bus unless you want a pasting from a raging driver in front of 40 other people even poorer than yourself.
- One reason is the aftermath of the 2000-03 bear market in which pension funds and insurance company with-profits funds took a pasting.
- I know that you love the ring and would suffer it for the duration, but it is just not fair that your poor chap has had to take a financial pasting over an essentially worthless piece of jewellery.
- After a humiliating pasting at the Ayr by-election earlier this year, where they didn't just lose the MSP seat but slumped into third place, one would have thought Labour would have been keen to draw a veil over a memorably inept campaign.
- Never before have the tiny group of islands in the north Atlantic come so far in a qualifying campaign without being on the receiving end of a couple of pastings, at least.
- But critical pastings and the lack of new scores of any quality dog the British musical just as much as they have its American counterpart.
- Clayton said: ‘Those first few ships in were really in for a pasting and it took considerable courage to be right at the front.’
- Italy producing fine disciplined rugby, and Wales playing like flounders in the Severn, and at the end a thoroughly-merited win for the Azzurri and a deserved pasting for the Welsh.
- He will need to raise his game to avoid a second pasting.
- Initially, the shares took a bit of a pasting, but got away lightly, unlike Elan, which saw 50% wiped off it value in the space of day.
- Housing estates like Sallybrook on the Clonea Road took a pasting that is certain to have cost many homeowners substantially in terms of the damage caused.
- This criticism, however, is as nothing compared to the pasting that the UN is getting from some quarters.
- Fresh from its pasting for reclaiming shares wrongly allocated three years ago, the Halifax finally decided if it can't beat the ‘good guys’ in the banking world, it is going to have to join them.
- And it was comforting revenge for a pasting at rain-saturated Dooradoyle last season; a none-too-eminent performance before a bigger than local support.
- All the time, his own party is being linked to all the things that go wrong and is getting a pasting.
- Short and his colleagues gave Celtic a pasting in the first half.
- This farrago of nonsense was surprisingly influential, and remains so to this day, though I must admit (having just looked him up) that he got a thorough pasting from his fellow critics even while he was alive.
- The Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, despite government assertions to the contrary, also receives a pasting as it is perceived as disadvantageous to US pharmaceutical firms.
Synonyms crushing defeat, annihilation, drubbing, trouncing, rout
Definition of pasting in US English: pastingnounˈpāstiNGˈpeɪstɪŋ informal A severe beating or defeat. 〈非正式〉痛击，痛打；惨败 an effort to raise party turnout at the polls and avoid a pasting Example sentencesExamples - But critical pastings and the lack of new scores of any quality dog the British musical just as much as they have its American counterpart.
- Initially, the shares took a bit of a pasting, but got away lightly, unlike Elan, which saw 50% wiped off it value in the space of day.
- Italy producing fine disciplined rugby, and Wales playing like flounders in the Severn, and at the end a thoroughly-merited win for the Azzurri and a deserved pasting for the Welsh.
- The Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, despite government assertions to the contrary, also receives a pasting as it is perceived as disadvantageous to US pharmaceutical firms.
- In fact, the highest-rated hour of Game Six came after Arizona had all but run away with the game, almost as if America was taking some sort of sick pleasure at watching the Yankees take a pasting.
- I know that you love the ring and would suffer it for the duration, but it is just not fair that your poor chap has had to take a financial pasting over an essentially worthless piece of jewellery.
- Don't try eating a baked potato on the bus unless you want a pasting from a raging driver in front of 40 other people even poorer than yourself.
- After a humiliating pasting at the Ayr by-election earlier this year, where they didn't just lose the MSP seat but slumped into third place, one would have thought Labour would have been keen to draw a veil over a memorably inept campaign.
- He will need to raise his game to avoid a second pasting.
- We took an absolute pasting and had to make two or three redundancies.
- This criticism, however, is as nothing compared to the pasting that the UN is getting from some quarters.
- Clayton said: ‘Those first few ships in were really in for a pasting and it took considerable courage to be right at the front.’
- All the time, his own party is being linked to all the things that go wrong and is getting a pasting.
- And it was comforting revenge for a pasting at rain-saturated Dooradoyle last season; a none-too-eminent performance before a bigger than local support.
- Fresh from its pasting for reclaiming shares wrongly allocated three years ago, the Halifax finally decided if it can't beat the ‘good guys’ in the banking world, it is going to have to join them.
- Never before have the tiny group of islands in the north Atlantic come so far in a qualifying campaign without being on the receiving end of a couple of pastings, at least.
- Short and his colleagues gave Celtic a pasting in the first half.
- Housing estates like Sallybrook on the Clonea Road took a pasting that is certain to have cost many homeowners substantially in terms of the damage caused.
- One reason is the aftermath of the 2000-03 bear market in which pension funds and insurance company with-profits funds took a pasting.
- This farrago of nonsense was surprisingly influential, and remains so to this day, though I must admit (having just looked him up) that he got a thorough pasting from his fellow critics even while he was alive.
Synonyms crushing defeat, annihilation, drubbing, trouncing, rout
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