bashing

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of bash

noun

1. An instance of bashing; a physical or verbal attack.

   “I gulped a bit of tea. ‘I bet, Dad,’ I said, ‘you give those poor old 1930s of yours a bit of a bashing.’”

   “Jean-Claude Juncker has called for an end to “Russia-bashing” two months after scores of Moscow’s diplomats across the EU were expelled in response to the use of a nerve agent in the UK.”