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Verb

Present participle for to attack or ridicule publicly

Present participle for to subject to humiliation, scorn, ridicule or abuse

Present participle for to set in, or punish with, the pillory

Expressing or characterized by scorn or contempt

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Verb

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Present participle for to attack or ridicule publicly

criticising^UK

criticizing^US

pummelling^UK

giving a bad press to

throwing brickbats at

casting aspersions on

belaboring^US

belabouring^UK

hauling over the coals

doing a hatchet job on

giving someone a roasting

rapping over the knuckles

giving someone a rollicking

traducing

giving someone a bad press

giving something a battering

giving someone a bollocking

passing strictures upon

taking down

libeling^US

libelling^UK

picking at

going for the jugular

bringing into disrepute

spreading lies about

giving someone bondi

throwing mud at

sullying the reputation of

blackening the reputation of

blackening the name of

dragging through the mud

labelling^UK

labeling^US

giving a bad name

conducting a smear campaign against

jumping down someone's throat

giving a tongue-lashing

giving something a bad press

earbashing

accosting

jumping on one's case

biting someone's head off

snapping someone's head off

jumping down one's throat

letting someone have it

delivering a tirade to

minimizing^US

minimising^UK

holding forth against

crying down

cavilling^UK

caviling^US

ostracizing^US

ostracising^UK

demonizing^US

demonising^UK

giving someone a dressing-down

giving a talking-to

deriding

pulling up

giving someone an earful

giving someone a telling-off

giving someone a mouthful

giving someone a wigging

giving someone what for

giving someone a rating

expressing disapproval of

taking issue with

sounding off

slapping down

kicking up a stink about

giving someone a caning

kicking up a fuss about

raking over the coals

expostulating

arguing against

detracting from

raising objections to

taking a stand against

giving someone some stick

sending someone away with a flea in their ear

calling over the coals

holding cheap

kicking up a fuss

complaining vociferously about

taking down a peg

slapping someone's wrist

calling on the carpet

expressing disagreement with

lodging a protest against

remonstrating against

putting up a fight against

disagreeing violently with

complaining bitterly about

disesteeming

ranting about

making a protest against

going after

jeering at

making a stand against

protesting strongly at

satirizing^US

reviewing unfavorably

satirising^UK

taking to the woodshed

dishonoring^US

cudgeling^US

cudgelling^UK

expressing strong disapproval of

commenting negatively

objecting strongly to

expressing disapprobation

thinking badly of

expressing disapprobation of

sending someone away with a flea in his

giving a piece of one's mind

giving the dickens

lowering the boom

regarding with disgust

holding someone to blame

expressing a poor opinion of

shooting full of holes

raising objections

expressing objections

minding

expressing objections to

expressing disagreement

lodging a protest

expressing disapproval

whipping

kicking up

taking great exception to

having a problem

making a fuss

quarreling with

having a problem with

baulking^UK

balking^US

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“The public will pillory anyone seen trying to extract political advantage from misery.”

Verb

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Present participle for to subject to humiliation, scorn, ridicule or abuse

treating with contempt

goofing on

holding up to ridicule

taking the piss out of

satirizing^US

satirising^UK

treating contemptuously

making a monkey out of

making a laughing-stock

exposing to ridicule

making someone a laughing stock

poking borack

laughing out of court

pulling someone's leg

bedevilling^UK

bedeviling^US

dishonoring^US

pulling someone's chain

curling your lip at

turning your nose up at

casting aspersions on

raspberrying

treating disrespectfully

trash-talking

playing a practical joke

throwing shade

look down one's nose at

treating with disdain

shouting disapproval at

blowing raspberries at

gamboling^US

gambolling^UK

getting on the nerves of

playing a practical joke on

taking a rise out of

getting a rise out of

getting in the hair of

giving the Bronx cheer to

spitting in the eye of

spitting on

turning back on

turning down

spitting in the face of

victimizing^US

libeling^US

libelling^UK

saying contemptuously

making cutting remarks about

turning up one's nose

hurting somebody's feelings

stepping on one's toes

victimising^UK

doing an injustice to

stepping on the toes of

hitting where one lives

laying a bad trip on

giving no quarter

flirting with

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“His mean friends would pillory him for his choice of clothes.”

Verb

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Present participle for to set in, or punish with, the pillory

pillorizing

Adjective

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Expressing or characterized by scorn or contempt

libellous^UK

libelous^US

skeptical^US

sceptical^UK

patronizing^US

patronising^UK

politically incorrect

sulphurous^UK

sulfurous^US

unfavorable^US

rubbing the wrong way

minimizing^US

minimising^UK

libeling^US

libelling^UK

dishonoring^US

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