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Verb

To admonish or criticize (a person) for their actions

haul over the coals

read the riot act

give someone a telling-off

give a talking-to

give someone a dressing-down

give someone an earful

give someone a roasting

give someone a rollicking

give someone hell

give someone a mouthful

give someone a row

let someone have it

give someone what for

rap over the knuckles

give someone a wigging

tear off a strip

give someone a rating

remonstrate with

give someone a bollocking

give someone a caning

give someone some stick

send someone away with a flea in their ear

rake over the coals

slap on the wrist

give a piece of one's mind

slap someone's wrist

call on the carpet

find fault with

take to the woodshed

come down hard on

jump down one's throat

tear a strip off

give a going over

tell a thing or two

strongly criticize

rap on knuckles

bite someone's head off

lay down the law

reprimand severely

give tongue-lashing

rake over coals

send someone away with a flea in his

give the dickens

tear someone a new one

give someone a dressing down

give someone a telling off

give someone a carpeting

criticize hatefully

mete out punishment to

criticize strongly

make an example of

rap someone the knuckles

drag over the coals

criticize severely

give comeuppance

point the finger

express disapproval of

snap someone's head off

call to account

give a hard time

take down a peg

burn one's ears

lose one's temper with

have someone on the carpet

give the business

jump down someone's throat

come down on like a ton of bricks

throw the book at

give someone stick

give a black eye

fulminate against

drag through the mud

drag through the mire

bring into disrepute

inveigh against

bring discredit to

reflect badly on

bring shame upon

give a bad name

rip up and down

do a hatchet job on

tar and feather

spread scandal about

run smear campaign

vituperate against

lay at one's door

hold accountable

hold responsible

cast aspersions on

give some stick to

give someone a bad press

point finger at

assign guilt to

give something a bad press

remonstrate against

express a poor opinion of

cut to the quick

put someone in their place

take down a peg or two

impute blame to

bellyache about

hold accountable for

hold responsible for

attribute blame to

sound off about

assault verbally

blacken someone's reputation

rap across the knuckles

severely reprimand

criticize harshly

hold someone to blame

declaim against

pass strictures upon

drag through mud

drag someone's name through the mud

jump on one's case

go for the jugular

give a tongue-lashing

give going-over

give piece of mind

express disapprobation

express disapprobation of

bring charges against

call over the coals

bring to account

throw brickbats at

take issue with

give a bad press to

make uncomfortable

make someone eat crow

make someone feel ashamed

cut down to size

make a protest to

assign fault to

lay the blame on

place the blame on

shift the blame

lay a guilt trip on

consider guilty of

lay a bad trip on

assign liability to

kick in the teeth

slap in the face

hit where one lives

hang something on

blow whistle on

send up the river

put in a bad light

ruin the reputation of

lay at the door of

damage someone's reputation

lay the blame on someone for

attribute liability to

lodge complaint

hold answerable for

destroy someone's credibility

bring into disfavour

show in a bad light

blacken someone's name

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“Clare was for a while protected by the man's unreadiness to have words with his brother, who always took his wife's part.”

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