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To subject to cruel or unjust treatment

Make someone annoyed or angry

Severely reprimand or make things very unpleasant for someone

Make rude and mocking remarks, typically in a loud voice

Verb

To subject to cruel or unjust treatment

be prejudiced against

show antagonism to

bear a grudge towards

discriminate against

feel ill will towards

show ill will towards

punish unfairly

make things hot for someone

have your knife into

give a hard time

ride roughshod over

push someone around

cause suffering to

inflict anguish on

inflict suffering on

inflict pain on

nail to a cross

hang on a cross

play the heavy with

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Verb

Make someone annoyed or angry

tick someone off

make someone see red

rub up the wrong way

drive up the wall

give someone the hump

be a pain in the neck

get on your nerves

give someone grief

get on the nerves of

take the mickey out of

get in the hair of

be on the back of

take the piss out of

breathe down someone's neck

get on your wick

bend someone's ear

give a bad time

get under one's skin

give a hard time

get in one's hair

put your back up

get your back up

get the knife into

make things hot for someone

make it hot for someone

stick the knife into

be on one's case

be on your back

cause anxiety to

be a great weight on

shout catcalls at

cut to the quick

hurt someone's feelings

get across someone

make someone fed up

stick in one's craw

rub the wrong way

get on one's nerves

set one's teeth on edge

try the patience of

make discontented

have had enough

irritate greatly

give the cold shoulder

send into a rage

make your blood boil

get a rise out of

make blood boil

hit where one lives

cause suffering

give offence to

be disagreeable to

push the buttons of

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Verb

Severely reprimand or make things very unpleasant for someone

give someone hell

make it hot for someone

make things hot for someone

be on your back

get in your hair

drive round the bend

drive up the wall

breathe down someone's neck

give a hard time

get on your nerves

give someone grief

find fault with

bend someone's ear

drive round the twist

keep complaining to

put pressure on

bring pressure to bear on

be a nuisance to

give a bad time

rattle one's cage

be on one's tail

leave no stone unturned

be on one's back

beat the bushes

search high heaven

be on one's case

turn inside out

turn upside down

breath down someone's neck

drive you up the wall

get in one's hair

get on one's nerves

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Verb

Make rude and mocking remarks, typically in a loud voice

shout disapproval

blow raspberries

shout disapproval at

blow raspberries at

cock a snook at

take the piss out of

take the mickey out of

poke mullock at

hold up to ridicule

treat with contempt

make a monkey out of

make jokes about

be sarcastic about

treat contemptuously

show contempt for

hold in contempt

make a monkey of

turn up one's nose

make a laughing-stock

take the mickey

give Bronx cheer

pull somebody's leg

wind someone up

give the bird to

pull someone's chain

pull someone's leg

play a practical joke

expose to ridicule

be scornful about

hold up to shame

make someone a laughing stock

laugh out of court

have a joke with

do a takeoff of

do an impression of

be contemptuous of

transgress against

treat with disdain

fail to observe

commit a breach of

be in breach of

fail to comply with

laugh in the face of

fly in the face of

cause offence to

call someone names

make cutting remarks about

say contemptuously

turn your nose up at

turn up your nose

curl one's lip at

cast aspersions on

give offence to

step on one's toes

hurt someone's feelings

treat disrespectfully

give someone the cold-shoulder

cut to the quick

shout catcalls at

drag through the mud

do a hatchet job on

bring shame upon

tar and feather

give a black eye

drag through the mire

reflect badly on

bring into disrepute

rip up and down

bring discredit to

give a bad name

spread scandal about

run smear campaign

find fault with

cut down to size

take down a peg

be contemptuous about

regard with contempt

feel contempt for

turn up your nose at

give a bad press to

throw brickbats at

give something a battering

look down nose at

comment negatively

bellyache about

drag through mud

drag someone's name through the mud

give comeuppance

knock off high horse

think little of

look down one's nose at

thumb one's nose at

thumb one's nose

sound off about

take a swipe at

shoot full of holes

take dim view of

express contempt

look down your nose at

criticize strongly

bring under fire

review unfavorably

put in a bad light

give a bad name to

put someone in their place

make someone eat crow

take down a peg or two

cause to lose face

hold up to scorn

talk something down

find intolerable

make a mockery of

not be able to stomach

not be able to stand

not be able to bear

lead somebody on

give a hard time

have no use for

mess someone around

make a monkey out of someone

mess someone about

have someone on

consider beneath you

consider beneath one

curl your lip at

give the Bronx cheer to

spit in the face of

spit in the eye of

turn nose up at

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