griping, whining, bellyaching, grousing, bitching, grumbling, ranting, sniping, bleating, blathering, yapping, harrumphing, harping, kvetching, prattle, pontificating, moaning, whinge, nattering, bickering, complaining, yammering, hectoring, quibbling, nitpicking, fretting, sneering, fawning, caviling, fulminating, chortling, bashing, deriding, posturing, pettily, braying, gloating, jibes, blabber, haranguing, obsessing, bemoaning, naysaying, fulminations, fussing, dissing, yakking, hullabaloo, crowing, caterwauling, idiocies, protestations, quibblers, squawking, gibes, moralizing, negativism, muttering, snit, raving, jabbering, pandering, squabbling, grumblers, hating, jeremiads, berating, chattering, sourpusses, razzing, pussyfooting, snide, pouting, sniggering, tirades, sanctimonious, ridiculing, lamenting, palaver, grumps, slagging, drivel, snickering, criticisms, diatribes, guff, sulking, inanities, castigating, vituperation, backbiting, musing, shrill, badgering, parroting, pilloried, despising, foofaraw, smugness, bewailing, silliness, blustering, nagging, arguing, harassment, quarrelling, teasing, wrangling, annoyance, chatter, dissension, meddling, bickerings, bullying, jostling, prodding, buffeting, appreciative, captious, censorious, cocksure, cynical, embittered, friendliest, iconoclastic, indulgent, lenient, querulous, sceptical, skeptical, sternest, uncharitable, unkindly, voluble, waspish, acerbic, acidulous

bait, captiously, cod, rag, rally, razz, ride, tantalise, tantalize, taunt, tease, twit

criticism, unfavorable judgment

caviling, critical, faultfinding, nitpicking, pettifogging, quibbling