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Noun
A reprimand or rarely, a thrashing
A sternly critical or censorious remark or instruction
Verb
Present participle for to rebuke or berate harshly
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Noun
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A reprimand or rarely, a thrashing
reprimand
castigation
reproach
upbraiding
lambasting
chiding
tongue-lashing
bawling-out
rebuke
scolding
reproof
admonition
admonishment
telling-off
censure
wigging
lecture
criticism
talking-to
remonstration
reproval
ticking off
roasting
carpeting
ticking-off
rollicking
bollocking
rocket
earful
rap over the knuckles
blast
berating
caning
condemnation
rating
diatribe
rap
serve
dressing down
slap on the wrist
harangue
tirade
obloquy
stricture
chastisement
blame
excoriation
reprehension
row
telling off
denunciation
disapproval
objurgation
riot act
slating
commination
talking to
bashing
attack
comeuppance
disapprobation
caution
remonstrance
going-over
hard time
piece of your mind
vituperation
discipline
sideswipe
correction
philippic
abuse
slur
objection
counsel
warning
going over
accusation
rap on the knuckles
chewing out
blowing-up
flea in ear
put down
ragging
punishment
penalty
retribution
flea in the ear
deserts
slap on the wrists
sermon
injunction
caveat
outburst
a slap on the wrist
recrimination
verbal blasting
verbal thrashing
heat
shame
preachment
moralism
preaching
rebuff
disrepute
discredit
stick
slap in the face
expostulation
kick in the teeth
chewing-out
displeasure
deprecation
scorn
being put in one's place
tick off
scold
haul over the coals
odium
tell off
upbraid
stain
slight
contempt
blemish
dissatisfaction
blowing up
fault-finding
wrath
oral punishment
bawling out
slap on wrist
what for
calling down
eat the head off someone
chew out
a tongue-lashing
a bollocking
down the banks
a dressing-down
vilification
persecution
assault
invective
scurrility
malevolence
panning
slagging
argument
knocking
jibe
fulmination
confrontation
contumely
libel
traducement
slander
pugnacity
denigration
defilement
offense
US
revilement
vitriol
indignity
combativeness
broadside
derision
calumniation
insolence
disagreement
belligerence
billingsgate
impugnment
insult
rant
offence
UK
aspersions
calumny
defamation
polemic
disparagement
bad press
character assassination
verbal onslaught
verbal assault
flak
jeremiad
reviling
slamming
stream of abuse
discourse
railing
decrying
brickbats
screed
denouncement
brickbat
swipe
smear
aspersion
knock
slam
roast
battering
arraignment
disputation
reprobation
slap
hit
sledge
nitpicking
dispute
slagging off
malediction
anger
ranting
verbal attack
bone to pick
bone of contention
execration
critique
opprobrium
complaint
vociferation
protest
curse
animadversion
examen
carping
verbal
quibble
cavilling
UK
cavil
faultfinding
takedown
pan
notice
captiousness
caviling
US
cut
critical remark
anvil chorus
harsh call
call down
bad notice
verbal disapproval
nit-picking
mauling
barrage
jab
mocking comment
angry exchange
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“I was forced to endure this schoolmaster's
dressing-down
despite being innocent of any of the alleged conduct.”
Noun
▲
A sternly critical or censorious remark or instruction
stricture
censure
reproach
rebuke
condemnation
reproof
reprimand
denunciation
criticism
blame
excoriation
disapproval
objurgation
admonishment
commination
stick
attack
obloquy
flak
disparagement
animadversion
sideswipe
reprobation
knocking
slating
riot act
bad press
telling off
castigation
scolding
reprehension
dressing down
admonition
vituperation
chiding
remonstrance
upbraiding
reproval
berating
revilement
invective
objection
deprecation
vilification
fulmination
accusation
arraignment
rap
derogation
denouncement
knock
damning
implication
cursing
stigmatization
US
stigmatisation
UK
character assassination
antagonism
opprobrium
animosity
admonishments
hostility
knocks
raps
enmity
brickbats
fire
ill will
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Verb
▲
Present participle for to rebuke or berate harshly
raking over the coals
rebuking
scolding
berating
reprimanding
reproaching
upbraiding
admonishing
castigating
chastising
lambasting
blasting
censuring
chiding
reproving
carpeting
lecturing
ragging
railing
vituperating
bollocking
telling off
dressing down
hauling over the coals
lacing to
laying into
pitching into
pulling up
reaming out
bawling out
giving a piece of one's mind
criticizing
US
criticising
UK
chewing out
taking to task
rating
calling down
having a go at
keelhauling
reading the riot act
hammering
reprehending
objurgating
giving a rocket
giving someone a dressing-down
railing against
giving someone a roasting
railing at
giving someone a rollicking
tearing off a strip
tearing into
remonstrating with
ticking off
ranting at
rapping over the knuckles
condemning
basting
giving someone a telling-off
giving someone a bollocking
giving someone an earful
letting someone have it
giving someone hell
tongue-lashing
giving a talking-to
flaying
giving someone what for
jawing
scoring
excoriating
trimming
giving someone a mouthful
rapping
giving someone a wigging
giving someone a rating
coming down on
wigging
giving someone a caning
giving someone a row
slating
blaming
denouncing
attacking
slamming
rowing
slapping down
reviling
blowing up
giving someone some stick
dissing
slagging off
knocking
sending someone away with a flea in their ear
finding fault with
abusing
pillorying
savaging
putting down
flaming
panning
fulminating against
roasting
vilifying
putting on the mat
pummelling
UK
pummeling
disparaging
bashing
jumping on
haranguing
chastening
rubbishing
crucifying
bagging
blowing up at
tearing a strip off
lighting to
scathing
reprobating
slashing
nagging
denigrating
cutting up
reaming
maligning
bad-mouthing
pulling apart
trashing
jumping down one's throat
running down
pulling to pieces
slapping someone's wrist
calling on the carpet
deprecating
slurring
impugning
skewering
aspersing
ripping
belaboring
US
blistering
rollicking
belabouring
UK
picking holes in
casting aspersions on
yelling at
pouring scorn on
ripping into
inveighing against
assailing
potshotting
besmirching
derogating
caning
faulting
arraigning
slagging
disciplining
scorching
caviling
US
cavilling
UK
checking
finding fault
taking to the woodshed
going on at
sailing into
bringing to book
laying down the law
taking down
decrying
discrediting
punishing
raving at
denunciating
coming down hard on
exprobating
monishing
cautioning
skinning
lessoning
cutting down
calling over the coals
talking to
nitpicking about
picking at
giving a bad press to
doing down
picking to pieces
taking to pieces
biting someone's head off
animadverting on
hitting out at
nit-picking
defaming
correcting
sledging
smearing
stigmatizing
US
fustigating
mauling
raking
carping
execrating
lashing
dispraising
contemning
jawboning
nitpicking
accusing
preaching
judging
ostracizing
US
giving the business
wading into
snapping someone's head off
strongly criticizing
recriminating
finding lacking
letting fly at
throwing shade
rapping on knuckles
telling a thing or two
trouncing
tearing to shreds
stigmatising
UK
passing strictures upon
disapproving of
carping at
giving some stick to
speaking to
giving a going over
nitpicking over
hitting
getting after
climbing all over
ostracising
UK
slapping on wrist
zapping
ragging on
lamming into
drawing the line
scoffing at
passing judgment
getting at
vituperating against
criticizing severely
throwing brickbats at
calling to account
leaning on
giving someone a bad press
tearing down
expostulating
nagging at
ridiculing
exprobrating
sorting out
giving tongue-lashing
lampooning
lashing out at
having words with
harassing
proscribing
feruling
criticizing harshly
rapping across the knuckles
having words
severely reprimanding
giving a tongue-lashing
taking apart
tearing to pieces
attasking
carping on
sounding off
tearing apart
opposing
frying
going after
getting on
taking down a peg
giving a hard time
burning one's ears
laying out
dragging over the coals
rapping someone the knuckles
threaping
keeping after
jumping down someone's throat
taunting
having someone on the carpet
sending someone away with a flea in his
giving the dickens
lowering the boom
digging into
giving someone a telling off
tearing someone a new one
rejecting
slanging
chewing
cussing out
jumping all over
criticizing hatefully
shouting at
giving one hell
eating out
giving someone a carpeting
visiting
teaching a lesson
making an example of
criticizing strongly
meting out punishment to
picking on
moralising
UK
giving piece of mind
ranking on
giving going-over
moralizing
US
warning
rapping knuckles
setting upon
deploring
advising
counseling
US
adjuring
counselling
UK
anathematizing
twitting
pointing the finger
giving comeuppance
giving the devil
disgracing
dishonoring
US
dishonouring
UK
laying on
calling to task
expressing disapproval of
declaiming
prosecuting
slandering
throwing the book at
giving someone stick
speaking
coming down on like a ton of bricks
declaiming against
giving something a bad press
calling out
indicting
charging with
showing up
impeaching
deriding
striking
cudgeling
US
lashing into
shellacking
slapping
cudgelling
UK
smothering
scourging
belittling
traducing
calumniating
clobbering
scorning
incriminating
backbiting
animadverting
remonstrating
rebuffing
picking apart
looking askance
libeling
US
libelling
UK
giving flak to
slogging
inveighing
cutting to bits
doing a number on
fluffing
cavilling at
complaining about
skinning alive
bagging on
slugging
giving bad press
blackening
insulting
vilipending
slighting
penalizing
US
debasing
cursing
demonizing
US
jinxing
digging
giving a bad name
bringing into disrepute
spreading lies about
throwing mud at
doing a hatchet job on
sullying the reputation of
dumping on
blackening the reputation of
speaking evil of
ripping up
giving a black eye
demonising
UK
conducting a smear campaign against
dragging through the mud
speaking ill of
blackening the name of
taking disciplinary action against
putting on the carpet
penalising
UK
reprimanding severely
refuting
assaulting verbally
arguing with
disagreeing with
jumping on one's case
shooting down
starting on
going for the jugular
starting in
lashing out
piling in
taking on
fulminating
minimizing
US
ranting
discounting
protesting
minimising
UK
crying down
swearing at
disapproving
depreciating
raging
thundering
storming
oppressing
persecuting
complaining
hosing
fuming
whipping
taking issue with
calling names
thundering against
objecting to
kicking up a fuss about
kicking up a stink about
trash-talking
satirizing
US
satirising
UK
offending
beating
earbashing
imprecating
accosting
raking over coals
casting a slur on
screaming at
miscalling
zinging
injuring
riding
letting fly
rounding on
speaking badly of
diminishing
complaining of
bawling
yelping
yapping
dismissing
growling
riling
delivering a tirade to
blowing off
cutting to the quick
hurling insults at
sounding off to
reviewing unfavorably
bringing under fire
jeering at
giving something a battering
working over
having at
cracking down on
making a protest to
demeaning
detracting
tying into
beating up on
barking at
framing
cursing out
naming
adjudging
pronouncing
kissing off
talking down
writing off
making fun of
playing down
spouting
kicking
vociferating
declaring unfit
putting away
sending up
blowing whistle on
hanging something on
pointing finger at
laying at one's door
pinning it on
sending up the river
challenging
objecting
raging against
expostulating about
opposing strongly
protesting strongly at
putting up a fight against
remonstrating about
disagreeing violently with
kicking up
making a fuss about
kicking against
complaining vociferously about
taking great exception to
speaking out against
complaining bitterly about
making a protest against
taking a stand against
making a stand against
raising objections to
huffing
raving
speaking out
ranting and raving
making a stand
mouthing off about
going on about
taking a stand
protesting against
animadverting upon
vociferating about
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