criticize, lambaste, berate, castigate, chastise, excoriate, chide, deride, denounce, accuse, pilloried, laud, assail, condemn, upbraid, decry, scold, ridiculing, vilify, denigrate, badmouth, extol, poke fun, railed, crucify, complain, lampooned, mocked, fumed, eulogise, slagged, apologize, belittle, inveigh, admonish, heckle, embarrass, despise, satirise, revile, demonize, kowtow, bemoaned, whinge, rebuked, lashed, flog, fulminated, jeered, carped, sneered, soft soaping, lionise, pander, deplore, flays, punish, reproached, blaming, besmirch, bashing, harangued, gloat, enamour, scorning, disparage, lionize, taunt, slating, moan, criticising, infuriated, detest, blasted, swipe, begrudge, applaud, reproved, grumbled, incensed, chastize, demean, browbeat, blathered, malign, rant, satirize, disavow, humiliate, foist, patronising, irked, ride roughshod, demonized, penalize, resent, scoff, shames, slams, grovelled, traduce, cheerlead

brush down, chasten, correct, objurgate, tell off

beat, beat up, criticise, pick apart

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