criticize, chastise, lambast, excoriate, castigate, chide, berate, assail, decry, denounce, deride, scold, laud, upbraid, accuse, pilloried, extol, condemn, vilify, badmouth, ridiculing, inveigh, disparaged, crucify, poke fun, railed, bemoan, demonize, speechify, admonish, denigrate, complain, mocked, cheerlead, fulminate, embarrass, applaud, lionize, heckle, revile, grumble, tout, lament, belittle, carped, critiquing, pander, bloviate, hectoring, dissing, chastize, opine, flog, regurgitate, flay, lampooned, pontificating, parroted, kvetch, blabber, harangue, bashing, groused, rebuked, taunt, blathered, praising, scorning, espouse, impugn, ranted, slagged, demonizing, skewering, expound, disavow, deplored, slighting, sneering, snivel, reproved, despise, eulogise, moralize, whine, prattle, brag, blaming, mau mau, faulted, disinvite, demean, cite, browbeat, misspeaks, fawning, fearmonger, blasted, declaim, lash, proclaim, naysay

brush down, castigate, chasten, chastise, chastize, correct, objurgate, tell off

beat, beat up, criticise, criticize, pick apart

bawl out, berate, cane, check, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, flog, have words, jaw, lambast, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, reproof, scold