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Find fault with
pick holes in
belittle
condemn
denigrate
deride
run down
carp about
cavil at
complain about
grouch about
grouse about
grumble about
moan about
scoff at
whine about
bad-mouth
beef about
bellyache about
do down
gripe about
knock
nitpick over
whinge about
slag off
sound off about
attack
criticiseUK
criticizeUS
disparage
fault
pull to pieces
rubbish
slam
slate
find fault with
have a go at
tear to shreds
rebuke
chastise
reprimand
castigate
berate
lambaste
blast
objurgate
admonish
carpet
remonstrate with
rate
bawl out
dress down
ream out
chew out
give someone a roasting
give someone a rollicking
give someone a rocket
tear off a strip
upbraid
monster
chide
pummelUS
pummelledUK
give someone hell
rap over the knuckles
abuse
revile
scold
flame
lecture
put down
tear into
bollock
carp at
tell off
read the riot act
give someone a bollocking
call down
cane
excoriate
deprecate
bag
slash
discipline
reprobate
take exception to
cavil
flay
pull up
object to
rag
lambast
pillory
trim
baste
keelhaul
tongue-lash
tick off
give someone an earful
give someone a telling-off
give someone a dressing-down
give a talking-to
give someone some stick
give someone a mouthful
rail against
give someone a wigging
give someone what for
give someone a row
rail at
rant at
give someone a rating
savage
argue against
roast
bash
rollick
argue with
vilify
pull apart
cut up
rebut
contradict
dispute
quarrel with
disapprove
give someone a bad press
nag
chasten
score
jaw
rap
give someone a caning
bring someone to book
come down on
let someone have it
take someone to task
slap down
ream
wig
row
gainsay
controvert
take issue with
be hostile to
oppose
harangue
be against
fulminate against
crucify
take to pieces
sail into
deplore
depreciate
carp
decry
judge
correct
asperse
animadvert
remonstrate
vituperate
skin
denunciate
tear a strip off
pick to pieces
caution
come down on like a ton of bricks
send someone away with a flea in their ear
chew someone out
lace into
give a rocket
blow up
throw the book at
put on the mat
expostulate
pitch into
rap someone over the knuckles
disapprove of
ridicule
lampoon
nag at
animadvert on
pass strictures upon
yell at
jump on
objurate
go on at
preach
have someone on the carpet
take to the woodshed
light into
rake over the coals
recriminate
lay down the law
rail
keep after
threap
taunt
lay on
dishonorUS
accuse
call to task
dishonourUK
lesson
give comeuppance
disgrace
jawbone
point the finger at
give the devil
discredit
express disapproval of
defame
rake
detract from
maul
jeer at
nit-pick
trash
cast aspersions on
shoot down
draw the line
adjure
give a going over
tell a thing or two
warn
rap on knuckles
counsel
slap on wrist
strongly criticize
speak
call on the carpet
talk to
give someone stick
slap someone on the wrist
come down hard on
advise
give a piece of one's mind
throw brickbats at
find fault
talk something down
give something a battering
give a bad press to
inveigh against
anathematize
execrate
be anti
proscribe
name
frame
pronounce
punish
adjudge
give something a bad press
send up the river
send up
thumbs down on
pin it on
point finger at
put away
lay at one's door
hang something on
let have it
blow whistle on
blow up at
bring to book
recompense
visit
be in opposition to
spank
climb all over
skelp
lean on
ferule
dislike
disfavorUS
take dim view of
object
have a poor opinion of
negate
pass on
look askance at
remonstrate against
frown on
loathe
disesteem
detest
look down your nose at
zing
think wrong
have a problem with
express a poor opinion of
not hold with
not support
disfavourUK
be displeased with
look down on
discommend
have a down on
detract
not believe in
discountenance
be dissatisfied with
despise
raise an
take a dim view of
find unacceptable
be hostile towards
scorn
backbite
ostraciseUK
contemn
exprobate
rebuff
incriminate
ostracizeUS
slap on the wrist
look askance
get after
pick apart
tear apart
read out
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Verb
▲
To criticise for petty or frivolous reasons
cavil
carp
beef
complain
grouch
grouse
grumble
moan
nitpick
quibble
bleat
censure
condemn
decry
denounce
whine
bellyache
criticiseUK
criticizeUS
fuss
gripe
niggle
object
split hairs
whinge
chunter
create
hypercriticize
knock
kvetch
mither
niggle about
nit-pick
pettifog
find fault
find fault with
sound off
be hypercritical
be picky
kvetch about
pick holes in
kick up a fuss
nag
mutter
growl
keen
holler
squawk
grizzle
wail
grump
repine
caterwaul
scream
squeal
yammer
murmur
croak
yawp
maunder
whimper
yowl
yaup
groan
object to
fight
dislike
reproach
snivel
disparage
put up a fight
inveigh against
be on at someone
speak out against
rail
resist
be against
deplore
fulminate
chirp
crib
natter
combat
blast
take umbrage
make a stand
differ
take a stand
blame
contest
be put out
wrangle
scold
go on
bicker
squabble
disaccord
discord
lament
mumble
take offense
cry
stickle
admonish
bemoan
rebel
rant
revile
upbraid
castigate
vituperate
disagree with
reprove
clash
recriminate
berate
quarrel
gainsay
abuse
debate
disfavorUS
contradict
nonconcur
conflict
attack
pule
cry out
lay into
tongue-lash
altercate
disfavourUK
contend
scrap
spat
let have it
oppose strongly
discept
look askance at
animadvert
war
kick against
plain over
run down
pan
pick at
lock horns
cross swords
complain vociferously about
take a dim view of
protest about
gurn
be opposed
be an adversary of
anathematize
execrate
curse
take something the wrong way
go off in a huff
take something amiss
smart
grunt
scruple
boggle
sob
mewl
raise Cain
blow off
express doubts
sniffle
weep
blubber
pick on
object strongly to
withstand
frown upon
rain
reason
dissuade
blub
peck
bother
objurgate
pick holes
express doubt
raise doubts
cry softly
resent
declaim
be offended by
take umbrage at
raise an objection
take offence at
demur at
fall out
be at odds
go at it
bump heads
jar
fail to agree
be at variance
argy-bargy
be in dispute
protest to
complain to
impugn
lash
lambaste
roast
trash
vilify
make a protest to
scorch
storm
rage
denigrate
yelp
yap
bawl
grouch about
rip into
lay out
come out against
thunder against
fulminate against
rage against
have at
work over
crack down on
go after
sound off about
revolt
detest
despise
find unacceptable
loathe
expostulate about
protest strongly at
criticize severely
declaim against
remonstrate about
take a dim view
howl
think wrong
not support
rebuke
bellyache about
jump down one's throat
complain vehemently about
bawl out
thunder
rate
make a stand against
jaw
vociferate
objurate
make a protest against
fume
disagree violently with
put up a fight against
chew out
complain bitterly about
whip
kick up
take great exception to
not believe in
reprehend
have a poor opinion of
slam
pass on
dispraise
zing
not hold with
look down on
have a down on
detract
take dim view of
negate
chastise
look down your nose at
express a poor opinion of
be displeased with
be dissatisfied with
raise an
be hostile towards
express opposition
speak out
make a protest
discourage
say no
voice disapproval
thumbs down
take up the cudgels
say no to
back-talk
be displeased by
frown
diverge
show displeasure
not take kindly to
repudiate
reject
refuse
renounce
abjure
row
spar
feud
shy
divide
decline
vary
buck
controvert
grieve
haggle
battle
palter
brawl
skirmish
zap
bewail
have words
be at loggerheads
set to
rip into each other
be at sixes and sevens
jump on
contradict each other
go for the jugular
argue with
quibble over
be at odds with
put up an argument
decline to support
break with
say nothing doing
be at variance with
withhold assent
express objection
not ratify
fail to agree with
say not a chance
say no way
refuse to support
fly in the face of
charge
fret
contravene
refute
defy
lay
accuse
indict
impute
ascribe
go on about
put the boot in
rail at
look askance
lodge a complaint
make a complaint
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Verb
▲
To avoid giving a direct answer to (a question)
evade
parry
fence
fudge
hedge
avoid
bypass
circumvent
dodge
sidestep
baulkUK
balkUS
duck
equivocate
flannel
prevaricate
pussyfoot
stonewall
tergiversate
waffle
weasel
avoid answering
fend off
skirt round
be equivocal about
be evasive about
get out of
cop out of
find a way round
not pay
not give a straight answer to
beat about the bush about
beat around bush
beg the question
tell untruths
tell stories
beguile
delude
mislead
trick
pretend
spin a yarn
procrastinate
hoodwink
misguide
bluff
dupe
hoax
concoct
misinform
tell lies
snow
pervert
perjure
feign
make up
string along
have on
lead astray
trump up
be economical with the truth
throw off the scent
put on the wrong track
send on a wild goose chase
delay
fool
dissimulate
hang back
gain time
forge
tarry
misdirect
devise
snooker
disinform
bamboozle
sucker
cozen
use delaying tactics
play for time
doublespeak
hornswoggle
gaff
kid
gammon
propagandizeUS
have
humbug
spoof
juggle
burn
buffalo
tell a lie
invent a story
forswear
mousetrap
gull
catch
propagandiseUK
make up a story
depart from the truth
forswear yourself
take in
lie to
not tell the truth
bear false witness
commit perjury
make believe
tell a terminological inexactitude
suck in
fake out
lead on
tell a white lie
give wrong information to
lead one down the garden path
lead up the garden path
put on an act
give someone a bum steer
wrong steer
put up smoke screen
put on false front
do a number on
bait and switch
pull the wool over one's eyes
pull one's leg
pull the wool over somebody's eyes
take for a ride
hold back
hang fire
straddle an issue
give nothing away
filibuster
fluctuate
swither
falter
haver
dodge the question
dilly-dally
flatter
skirt the issue
coin
form
counterfeit
play it close to the vest
change
yo-yo
soft-soap
ramble
swear falsely
lie under oath
blather
sweet-talk
plant
promote
shovel
tell a fib
scam
use flattery
talk blarney
fast-talk
create fiction
bilk
hose
swindle
illude
inveigle
shaft
cheat
seduce
speak with forked tongue
tell a little white lie
defraud
outfox
rook
betray
entice
bunk
tempt
blarney
blandish
change one's mind
ensnare
victimizeUS
overreach
entangle
enmesh
victimiseUK
lure
caboodle
bait
impose on
make like
rip off
rope in
pull the wool over someone's eyes
pull a swifty on
pull wool over eyes
lead up garden path
take someone in
play trick on
take someone for a ride
pull a fast one on
give the wrong impression
double-cross
put one over on
manufacture
butter up
excogitate
construct
contrive
hatch
defer
tell untruth
drum up
think up
cook up
simulate
conjure up
dream up
vamp up
vamp
create out of thin air
bargain
haggle
negotiate
avoid committing oneself
play a waiting game
deal
kick the can down the road
use Fabian tactics
avoid making a decision
take your time
chaffer
desert
defect
dicker
apostatize
babble
renounce
renege
change sides
wheel and deal
horse-trade
cut a deal
turn traitor
go over to the other side
abandon belief
gaslight
bull
overdraw
misinstruct
tell a falsehood
tell an untruth
be untruthful
concoct a story
not speak the truth
fake it
perjure oneself
break promise
forswear oneself
be forsworn
say something untrue
perjure yourself
put up a front
frame someone
BS
lack candor
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Verb
▲
To analyze or argue against a claim or piece of information
debate
argue
contest
rebut
challenge
debunk
disprove
dispute
refute
contradict
controvert
counter
oppose
address
deny
discredit
examine
moot
query
question
reject
repudiate
altercate
answer
bandy
canvass
contravene
disaffirm
disavow
invalidate
canvas
contend
crush
disclaim
negate
wrangle
argue against
confute
disconfirm
pettifog
quash
squelch
argue about
call into question
contend over
disagree with
object to
prove false
prove wrong
tear down
agitate against
differ with
dissent against
hammer away at
pick a bone
put up argument
quibble over
show up
argue the pros and cons of
give thumbs down to
pick an argument with
protest against
prove to be false
prove to be wrong
shoot down
show to be false
show to be wrong
take issue with
blow out of the water
blow sky high
declare to be untrue
have an argument about
shoot down in flames
take a stand against
shoot full of holes
wonder about
bandy words concerning
taunt
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