What is another word for berating ?

giving someone a bollocking

Present participle for to chide or scold vehemently

criticising^UK

criticizing^US

lacing to

letting someone have it

slapping down

tongue-lashing

giving one hell

hauling over the coals

giving someone a caning

raking over the coals

calling down

coming down on

giving someone a row

giving someone a wigging

giving someone some stick

taking to the woodshed

criticizing hatefully

giving someone a mouthful

rapping over the knuckles

tearing a strip off

giving a talking-to

giving someone a carpeting

giving someone a dressing-down

giving someone an earful

giving someone a roasting

giving someone a rollicking

giving someone a telling-off

giving someone hell

putting on the mat

tearing off a strip

giving someone a rating

giving someone what for

sending someone away with a flea in their ear

slapping someone's wrist

pummelling^UK

belaboring^US

belabouring^UK

calling on the carpet

denunciating

giving a piece of one's mind

jumping down one's throat

giving someone a bad press

libeling^US

libelling^UK

biting someone's head off

casting aspersions on

faulting

hitting out at

criticizing severely

throwing brickbats at

minimizing^US

calling over the coals

minimising^UK

going for the jugular

crying down

giving something a bad press

whipping

picking to pieces

snapping someone's head off

having someone on the carpet

dragging through the mud

thundering against

objecting to

strongly criticizing

telling a thing or two

giving a going over

drawing the line

getting after

giving a bad press to

laying out

bringing into disrepute

expressing disapproval of

kicking up a fuss about

kicking up a stink about

doing a hatchet job on

giving a bad name

spreading lies about

throwing mud at

sullying the reputation of

blackening the reputation of

speaking to

jumping down someone's throat

climbing all over

conducting a smear campaign against

going after

blackening the name of

reprimanding severely

satirizing^US

satirising^UK

moralising^UK

moralizing^US

cudgeling^US

cudgelling^UK

counseling^US

counselling^UK

giving a tongue-lashing

jumping on one's case

ostracizing^US

ostracising^UK

dishonoring^US

giving tongue-lashing

meting out punishment to

rapping across the knuckles

severely reprimanding

delivering a tirade to

giving someone a telling off

tearing someone a new one

dragging over the coals

rapping someone the knuckles

passing strictures upon

reviewing unfavorably

bringing under fire

jeering at

giving something a battering

picking on

giving someone stick

coming down on like a ton of bricks

blackening

sending someone away with a flea in his

demonizing^US

demonising^UK

protesting strongly at

putting up a fight against

remonstrating about

declaiming against

disagreeing violently with

kicking up

making a fuss about

kicking against

complaining vociferously about

taking great exception to

speaking out against

complaining bitterly about

complaining about

making a protest against

taking a stand against

making a stand against

raising objections to

spreading scandal about

dragging through the mire

treating disrespectfully

throwing shade

sniffing at

giving someone bondi

running a smear campaign against

spreading tales about

dragging someone's name through the mud

laughing off

blackening someone's name

feeling contempt for

look down one's nose at

taking a swipe at

cutting down to size

writing false reports about

looking down upon

marking wrong

blackening the character of

dragging name through mud

treating with contempt

bringing discredit to

speaking of with disfavour

having a pop at

understating

knocking off high horse

shooting full of holes

spitting in the eye of

spitting on

turning back on

turning down

spitting in the face of

turning your nose up at

heaping scorn on

holding in contempt

belying

hurting somebody's feelings

cutting dead

stepping on one's toes

regarding with disgust

regarding with contempt

running smear campaign

having a strong aversion to

treating contemptuously

taking the piss out of

showing contempt

making a fool of

digging at

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“The old-school way of hating rubes asks us to berate them into giving up their identity out of shame and disgust.”

Verb

Present participle for to continuously remind or complain to (someone) in an annoying way

criticising^UK

criticizing^US

breathing down someone's neck

tyrannizing^US

tyrannising^UK

grumbling at

carping at

moaning on at

keeping complaining to

bending someone's ear

busting someone's balls

taking it out on

busting chops

bedeviling^US

bedevilling^UK

tantalizing^US

driving round the bend

getting on your nerves

tantalising^UK

searching high heaven

driving you up the wall

messing with

getting on one's nerves

making it hot for someone

burning up

making things hot for someone

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Verb

Present participle for to say something quickly and irritably

Verb

Present participle for to have a quarrel or argument with someone

Adjective

Ill-mannered in nature

libellous^UK

libelous^US

uncivilized^US

uncivilised^UK

unfavorable^US

dishonoring^US

minimizing^US

minimising^UK

politically incorrect

ill-humored^US

libeling^US

libelling^UK

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Adjective

Inclined to find fault too readily

unfavorable^US

criticizing^US

criticising^UK

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Noun

A long, angry or violent speech

rap over the knuckles