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, castigate, chasten, chastise, chastize, correct, harridan, objurgate, tell off

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

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