Antonyms for brickbat

Grammar : Noun

Spell : brik-bat

Phonetic Transcription : ˈbrɪkˌbæt

Definition of brickbat

Origin : mid-16c., piece of brick (half or less) used as a missile, from brick (n.) + bat (n.1). Figurative use, of comments, insults, etc., is from 1640s.

As in provocation : noun incitement, stimulus
As in slur : noun insult
As in taunt : noun provocation; teasing
As in criticism : noun verbal disapproval
As in affront : noun an insult
As in derision : noun insult, disrespect
As in disapproval : noun condemnation
As in flak : noun complaint, criticism

Example sentences :

Well, Pat, Jimmy didn't quite kill you with a brickbat, did he?
Extract from : « The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; » by Various

There is no more soul in him than there is in a brickbat, mother.
Extract from : « Make or Break » by Oliver Optic

I said, just now, he might be at once outshone by a brickbat.
Extract from : « Love's Meinie » by John Ruskin

But he came back with a brickbat and hammered like a blacksmith at the spring.
Extract from : « Frank of Freedom Hill » by Samuel A. Derieux

There isn't a mineral in Louisiana, unless it is a brickbat.
Extract from : « Miss Ravenel's conversion from secession to loyalty » by J. W. de Forest

It was a brickbat, sure, one of Maje Sampson's brickbat boys.
Extract from : « Held for Orders » by Frank H. Spearman

I caught him, put him back, and placed a brickbat over the hole.
Extract from : « Roof and Meadow » by Dallas Lore Sharp

It was a brickbat “Plug Ugly” fight—the result of animal, and not intellectual or patriotic instincts.
Extract from : « A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital » by John Beauchamp Jones

Well, it was a temptation to let something fly, be it Bible or brickbat, at the head of the average dullard.
Extract from : « Flint » by Maud Wilder Goodwin

Then came a brickbat, which missed the woman by very little and struck the truck wheel.
Extract from : « A Child of the Jago » by Arthur Morrison

Synonyms for brickbat

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