chide, scold, castigate, berate, lambaste, criticize, admonish, lambast, excoriate, upbraid, accuse, rebuking, reprimanding, denounce, assail, reproved, crucify, condemn, badmouth, punish, chastize, reproached, deride, apologize, pilloried, embarrass, browbeat, belittle, vilify, laud, applaud, heckle, censuring, penalize, ostracize, demonize, harangued, goaded, decry, ridiculing, denigrate, condescend, complain, blaming, faulted, groused, cursing, disparaged, disinvite, cheerlead, demean, shush, mocked, inveigh, moralize, fumed, needled, ingratiate, humiliate, jeer, impugn, begrudge, restrain, commend, taunt, coddle, snickered, remonstrated, cajole, antagonize, hectoring, embarass, revile, accost, fulminated, dissing, speechify, forgive, insulted, sneered, blathered, poke fun, ostracise, implore, sermonise, hesitate, maligns, disgracing, endear, humoring, displease, critiquing, bloviate, spank, speak, pussyfooting, genuflect, mutter, insinuate, grumble, railed, mouthing

flame

bawl out, check, chew out, chew up, dress down, have words, jaw, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, reproof

chasten, correct, objurgate