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, 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