chide, chastise, berate, admonish, lambaste, castigate, upbraid, criticize, hectoring, reproved, badmouth, browbeat, excoriate, reprimanding, lambast, rebuked, chastize, cajole, pilloried, shush, henpecking, reproached, cheerlead, condescend, kvetch, lecturing, accuse, crucify, moralize, coddle, punish, spank, inveigh, pester, deride, embarrass, scorning, heckle, assail, bully pulpit, snivel, goad, harangued, bloviate, speechify, grovels, sassing, bully, belittling, genuflect, prattle, humoring, accost, mollycoddle, bellyached, sneered, fulminated, enamor, mutter, blathered, apologize, pontificating, chortle, denounce, whined, yell, misunderestimate, misspeaks, holler, pussyfooting, shirk, vilify, simpering, mouthing, censuring, jabbered, sermonize, needled, kowtow, chasten, harrumphing, laud, snigger, misbehave, carped, fellate, bawls, dissing, badgering, ridiculing, squawk, groused, revile, complain, jeer, overpraise, blabber, preen, pretend, exclaim, cursing, twitting, scolding, drunkard, shrew, thief, cheat, flirt, gossips, quarrel, cynic, huff, bullies, curse, reproach, scuffle, boaster, disgrace, fight, hate, invalid, nuisance, come, everything, abusive, adaptable, adventurous, african, afroamerican, again, alike, already, amerindian, amiable, antillean, apostles, artless, asleep, asthenic, away, aztec, backward

brush down, correct, harridan, objurgate, tell off

criticise, disagreeable person, kick, pick apart, plain, quetch, sound off, unpleasant person

bawl out, check, chew out, chew up, common scold, dress down, grouch, grumble, have words, jaw, lecture, nag, nagger, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, reproof, scolder