Beat
Lecture
Lecture verb - To criticize (someone) severely or angrily especially for personal failings.
How words are described
| good | good beat | good lecture |
| nice | nice beat | nice lecture |
| long | long beat | long lecture |
| similar | similar beat | similar lecture |
| Other adjectives: short, perfect, original, mild, single, brutal, serious, slow, little, quick, opening, next, last, different, giant. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Even worse, the mission is on ALL difficulties, so even on the hardest difficulty you still have to listen to a lecture on how to attack (even though you need to beat the game or be at a certain level to unlock higher difficulties, which kinda requires you to know how to attack).
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Ironic Echo: "This must look so undignified." "Rigged games are the easiest ones to beat." Irony: After a prim lecture (to Odin) about being a pagan, the coffeeshop waitress exclaims "Jesus..." when Shadow hands her a bill she dropped.
Source: Literature / American Gods -
In Samurai Warriors, Nene acts as the self-imposed Team Mom of the Toyotomi clan—her Gaiden battle even has her showing up during the battle of Sekigahara not aligned with either side so she can beat the snot out of both armies and then lecture them about not getting along with each other.
Source: Team Mom
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