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Verb
▲
To criticize or find fault with
berate
admonish
castigate
rebuke
abuse
denounce
nag
reprimand
reproach
slate
upbraid
blast
carpet
lambast
revile
baste
caution
censure
chasten
chastise
chide
criticiseUK
criticizeUS
disparage
monster
rate
reprobate
reprove
threap
vilify
blame
cavil
discipline
hammer
keelhaul
lambaste
lecture
rag
rap
recriminate
reprehend
taunt
vituperate
wig
asperse
bollock
flay
jaw
rail
ream
row
score
expostulate
objurate
objurgate
preach
trim
put down
tell off
lay into
pull up
remonstrate with
tear into
dress down
rail against
rail at
tick off
bawl out
chew out
find fault with
jump on
light into
pitch into
rant at
ream out
give someone a bollocking
lace into
let someone have it
slap down
tongue-lash
impose a sentence on
slap with
inflict handicap
degrade
sully
taint
stain
blot
tarnish
debase
shame
soil
smirch
besmear
defile
lower
drag through the mud
drag through the mire
befoul
bring into disrepute
spoil
damage
spot
blacken
blotch
bring discredit to
breathe on
reflect badly on
bring shame upon
rip up and down
speak ill of
do a hatchet job on
give a bad name
scandalizeUS
muckrake
reduce
disrespect
scandaliseUK
bring shame on
tar and feather
sling mud at
spread scandal about
fling mud at
run smear campaign
charge
embarrass
inculpate
frame
impute
tax
hold accountable
find lacking
gripe about
complain about
grouch about
quibble about
carp about
moan about
grouse about
whine about
bellyache about
whinge about
beef about
nitpick over
sound off about
humiliate
humble
demean
pick to pieces
undermine
poison
cheapen
abase
shoot down
criminate
foul
finger
hold responsible
sink
ruin
disfavourUK
disfavorUS
disesteem
name
point finger at
hang something on
point a finger at
lay at one's door
point the finger
let have it
twit
carp
prejudice
question
confront
pervert
nag at
badmouth
blemish
refute
pass strictures upon
blackguard
fustigate
assault verbally
hold someone responsible
hold someone to blame
complain to
drag through mud
drag someone's name through the mud
poor-mouth
sling mud
disagree with
pile in
pronounce
depreciate
adjudge
start on
start in
take on
think badly of
express disapprobation
express disapprobation of
stick it to
compromise
send up
blow whistle on
send up the river
thumbs down on
pin it on
put away
present
lay at your door
bring charges against
tear to shreds
devalue
diminish
jump on one's case
bite someone's head off
snap someone's head off
go for the jugular
single out
scapegoat
detract from
disconsider
pooh-pooh
put in a bad light
reflect on
expose
puncture
mudsling
frown upon
bring to naught
poke full of holes
shoot
take rug out from under
bring into disfavour
destroy
show in a bad light
knock bottom out of
mortify
abash
cite
chagrin
dislike
disconcert
own
make uncomfortable
make someone eat crow
make someone feel ashamed
cut down to size
summons
detest
find unacceptable
frown on
loathe
indict for
arraign for
think wrong
be against
not support
tax with
bring to trial for
lay blame on
lay charges against
take to court for
apprehend
implicate
betray
recriminate for
prefer charges against
impeach for
make accusations about
allege
serve summons
summon
prosecute for
sue
attribute
lodge complaint
blow the whistle
lay at door
incriminate for
file charges against
arrest
put on trial for
censure with
bring charges
file claim
look askance at
discountenance
take exception to
not believe in
discommend
detract
negate
remonstrate against
express a poor opinion of
be displeased with
be dissatisfied with
be hostile towards
saddle
have a poor opinion of
raise an
pass on
have a problem with
not hold with
look down on
have a down on
take dim view of
look down your nose at
take a dim view of
hold liable
assign fault to
lay the blame on
place the blame on
accuse of
pass the buck
lay a guilt trip on
consider guilty of
find guilty of
assign guilt to
lay a bad trip on
assign liability to
more ❯
“Joe tried to interject his apologies, but she continued to scold him before he could get a word in.”
Verb
▲
To complain or express discontent in a wearisome manner
nag
harass
badger
harry
hound
berate
chivvy
hassle
henpeck
upbraid
bully
persecute
pester
worry
beef
bellyache
bleat
carp
caterwaul
complain
crab
criticiseUK
criticizeUS
croak
dog
fuss
gripe
grizzle
grouch
grouse
growl
grumble
grump
holler
inveigh
keen
keep on at
kick
kvetch
maunder
moan
murmur
mutter
needle
peck at
plague
repine
ride
scream
squawk
squeal
vex
wail
whimper
whine
whinge
yammer
yaup
yawp
yowl
carp at
go on at
heavy
keep after
bait
distress
disturb
eat
egg
goad
grumble at
harp on at
heckle
hector
importune
moan at
nudge
pick on
prod
provoke
lament
bemoan
bewail
deplore
trouble
nitpick
sob
pursue
howl
press
make a fuss
bedevil
screech
get at
pressurizeUS
beleaguer
quibble
petition
solicit
be on at someone
squall
weep
ululate
knock
whisper
pressuriseUK
blubber
yell
mourn
dun
devil
shriek
attack
argue
stress
agitate
rag
demur
oppose
bicker
plead
fret
beset
beseech
implore
entreat
upset
supplicate
greet
witter
waul
beg
molest
roar
mewl
pray
conjure
mumble
appeal to
enjoin
besiege
impetrate
nit-pick
raise objections
express disapproval
plead with
quarrel
obsecrate
ask
apply to
chivy
except
raise Cain
carry on
crave
make a stand
take a stand
call on
aggravate
fight
squabble
dispute
irk
gnaw
invoke
plead to
rail at
dissent
lodge a complaint
make a complaint
disapprove
deprecate
put up a fight
give someone grief
get in your hair
put the boot in
drive round the twist
drive round the bend
drive up the wall
take exception to
complain about
have a go at
dwell on
repeat
keep on
pressure
chase
hunt
gurn
anathematize
execrate
curse
harp upon
dwell upon
sniffle
gnaw at
miaow
blub
lean on
sorrow about
sorrow for
grieve over
sigh over
blow off
take on
put pressure on
bay
sorrow
perturb
insist on
kick up a rumpus
jowl
crying noise
make screeching
misbehave
blunder
bring pressure to bear on
rumble
cry softly
lay waste
give the business
cry the blues
cry loudly
kick up a storm
raise a ruckus
hypercriticize
exasperate
pan
peck
split hairs
objurgate
snarl
gabble
sputter
slur
drone
muddle
swallow
burble
pick holes
be on someone's back
request
talk under your breath
challenge
be indecorous
cut up
lose it
act up
scratch
scout
curdle
stress out
desire
victimizeUS
noodge
try
perplex
burn
macerate
despoil
pain
foray
bullyrag
strain
plain
adjure
charge
give chase
be at
yap at
scratch around
rag on
track down
exhort
argue against
protest against
oppose strongly
gainsay
contravene
refute
twine
defy
lay
accuse
disagree
indict
impute
ascribe
differ
jerk around
get to
woo
go on bended knee to
sue
pray to
advocate
canvass
requisition
abjure
call to
obtest
take out after
search high heaven
beat the bushes
turn inside out
turn upside down
rattle one's cage
give a bad time
be on one's tail
object strongly to
be on one's back
animadvert
make a fuss about
withstand
lodge a protest against
be on one's case
take issue with
take issue
combat
frown upon
express disagreement with
raise objections to
complain vociferously about
leave no stone unturned
rain
resist
take a stand against
express disapproval of
discriminate against
victimiseUK
go on about
look askance
altercate
controvert
brawl
scrap
wrangle
tiff
row
argufy
jar
spat
brabble
discommode
fall out
be on at
be down on
punish repeatedly and unfairly
have a down on
have it in for
breath down someone's neck
get on your nerves
insist
goose
con
demand
appeal
persuade
sell
egg on
more ❯
Verb
▲
Get onto
get onto
board
log on
reprimand
Verb
▲
Rebuff, ignore, or spurn disdainfully
snub
slight
cut
humiliate
cold-shoulder
insult
rebuff
affront
disdain
scorn
stiff
stiff-arm
ignore
repulse
spurn
blank
brush off
high-hat
humble
mortify
shame
misprize
put down
scout
treat disrespectfully
boycott
burr
censure
chill
coldshoulder
cool
cut dead
disregard
duck
freeze out
ice
neglect
offend
ostraciseUK
ostracizeUS
rebuke
scratch
shun
slur
snob
swank
upstage
knock back
act cool
give someone the brush-off
give the cold shoulder
ice out
pass up
take no notice of
give someone the go-by
give the brush
give the brushoff
kick in the teeth
look coldly upon
look right through
give someone a slap in the face
put the chill on
not give time of day
minimiseUK
more ❯
Verb
▲
To make (usually formal and extended) speech on a subject
harangue
lecture
declaim
berate
criticiseUK
criticizeUS
discourse
orate
address
attack
castigate
censure
descant
exhort
expatiate
lambaste
mouth off
perorate
pillory
speak
talk
upbraid
earbash
pontificate to
rant at
sermonize to
spout to
accost
admonish
apostrophize
buttonhole
declaim to
hold forth to
preach to
rant
rave
sermoniseUK
sermonizeUS
soapbox
spiel
spout
stump
deliver a tirade to
preachify to
speechify to
spiel to
spout at
chew out
give a lecture to
sound off to
talk to
yell at
go on about
hold forth
get on a soapbox
expand on
develop on
go into detail about
discourse on
amplify on
hold forth about
address an audience
deliver an address
get across
descant on
dissertate on
write at length about
spout about
expound on
perorate on
speak at length about
sound off about
more ❯
Verb
▲
Speak or shout at length in an angry, impassioned way
rant
bluster
spout
fulminate
shout
bellow
declaim
rave
roar
yell
vociferate
cry
huff
pontificate
trumpet
hold forth
sound off
bloviate
clamourUK
clamorUS
fume
harangue
mouth
objurgate
orate
perorate
rage
rail
seethe
sizzle
soapbox
spiel
storm
stump
deliver a tirade
go on and on
mouth off
rant and rave
carry on
go on
take on
blow one's top
get angry
blow a gasket
become enraged
become angry
fly into a rage
get mad
go into a rage
blow
be irritated
become annoyed
be inflamed
flip out
gnash your teeth
keep on
become furious
make a scene
fester
go non-linear
go psycho
go into a fury
lose temper
blaze
let rip
let fly
be resentful
go beserk
burn up
steam up
be excited
heat
lose your head
be passionate
be aroused
be stirred up
grow passionate
become excited
become impassioned
get excited
grow vehement
become animated
heat up
get annoyed
bridle
bubble
pop
blast
smash
shatter
demolish
spaz
lather
effervesce
froth
fizz
become indignant
become infuriated
charge
go crook
resent
object
be maddened
rear up
recoil
swell
take umbrage
ruffle
riot
do your nut
go postal
burst a blood vessel
be defensive
draw oneself up
take offence
fly into a temper
cream
spume
ferment
rampage
become upset
froth up
rise
run amok
rush madly
go on the rampage
run wild
rush wildly
run riot
get your dander up
gurgle
aerate
sparkle
hiss
burble
get one's dander up
get your hackles up
excoriate
irritate
abrade
gall
be annoyed
fuss
brood
be offended
be impatient
be frustrated
be exasperated
upset oneself
be ruffled
be narked
be vexed
more ❯
Verb
▲
Feel or express violent uncontrollable anger
rage
fume
seethe
rave
storm
be furious
boil
burn
fret
rant
chafe
be angry
be enraged
bristle
crack up
foam
lose it
rankle
see red
sizzle
spit
steam
be beside oneself
be incensed
be infuriated
go ballistic
have a fit
rant and rave
be boiling over
be incandescent
be livid
be wild
blow up
breathe fire
erupt
explode
lose the plot
lose your temper
overflow
roar
scream
splutter
surge
tear
wig out
yell
spit feathers
be beside yourself
be steamed up
blow your top
boil over
flip your lid
foam at the mouth
froth at the mouth
go berserk
go up the wall
jump up and down
look daggers
lose your rag
rail at
snap at
blow a fuse
blow one's top
champ at bit
go off the deep end
have a tantrum
let off steam
make a fuss over
throw a fit
work oneself into sweat
fly off the handle
hit the roof
lose control
go mad
smoulderUK
flare up
go bananas
smolderUS
simmer
be hot under the collar
bluster
flare
get angry
go wild
go ape
go crazy
be in a rage
be hopping mad
get hot under the collar
flip out
fulminate
blow a gasket
throw a wobbly
be very angry
flip
get steamed up
get worked up
go spare
go crackers
be in a state
go into a rage
be mad
go through the roof
boil with rage
foam at mouth
blow one's stack
become annoyed
be fit to be tied
become angry
become enraged
lose your cool
be indignant
smart
sputter
throw a tantrum
be irate
be tense
be agitated
be uptight
become furious
anger
be up in arms
raise the roof
get mad
be all steamed up
champ at the bit
be at boiling point
get hot
spark
stew
get steamed up about
lose temper
go into a fury
chomp at the bit
heat
hit the ceiling
breathe fire and slaughter
grow passionate
become impassioned
get excited
grow vehement
become animated
heat up
become excited
get annoyed
be on the warpath
bridle
spout
deliver a tirade
explode in anger
huff
babble
deliver a harangue
freak out
prate
wander
harangue
orate
rail
declaim
bloviate
prattle
go into a frenzy
gabble
perorate
mouth
talk wildly
be delirious
become infuriated
become indignant
carry on
rattle on
run amuck
hold forth
talk endlessly
come unglued
flip one's lid
make a to-do
recoil
resent
object
swell
take umbrage
be irritated
ruffle
be maddened
rear up
be defensive
draw oneself up
take offence
become upset
get your dander up
get one's dander up
get your hackles up
go non-linear
fly into a rage
pop one's cork
lose one's rag
more ❯
Verb
▲
Have a quarrel
row
argue
bicker
quarrel
squabble
fight
dispute
scrap
wrangle
disagree
altercate
argufy
differ
fall out
brabble
brawl
controvert
hassle
jar
quibble
spar
spat
tiff
fratch
have a row
bandy words
be at odds
be at variance
berate
cross swords
fail to agree
have a fight
have a misunderstanding
have words
jaw
lock horns
ream
tongue-lash
be at loggerheads
chop logic
bawl out
call on the carpet
go at it hammer and tongs
vex
irk
beset
tease
besiege
upset
afflict
bully
give someone grief
provoke
dog
molest
importune
bait
distress
pursue
drive up the wall
heckle
torture
needle
get to
exasperate
pain
rack
perturb
agonizeUS
hector
give a hard time
pressurizeUS
agoniseUK
goad
work on
burden
harrow
curse
nudge
anguish
excruciate
assail
inconvenience
pressuriseUK
press
pick on
bend someone's ear
prod
put out
chivy
eat
urge
gnaw
fuss
criticizeUS
perplex
oppress
haunt
strain
niggle
breathe down someone's neck
drive round the bend
incommode
henpeck
browbeat
disoblige
criticiseUK
impose on
peck at
embarrass
hurt
be a nuisance to
overrun
gnaw at
find fault with
give a bad time
pressure
bombard
remind
solicit
stress out
petition
bore
nettle
grieve
get at
gripe
intimidate
rile
taunt
chafe
intrude upon
concern
get
tantalizeUS
fear
disquiet
bullyrag
tantaliseUK
sweat
stew
rag
disgust
displease
carp at
insist
surround
interrupt
overwhelm
hack off
be at
discompose
infest
burn up
moan at
grumble at
keep complaining to
nag at
encircle
drive round the twist
hack you off
fall on
nitpick
prevaricate
equivocate
pick to pieces
split hairs
keep at
harp on
prompt
frustrate
chase
push
hunt
blight
fluster
rankle
lean on
insist on
weary
put pressure on
rankle with
give the business
scorn
rib
victimizeUS
chaff
bring pressure to bear on
drive crazy
barrage
ply
prey on
buttonhole
be prey to
be the victim of
lay waste
be on someone's back
sicken
nauseate
cause suffering to
get in one's hair
get on one's nerves
weigh heavily on
lie heavy on
punish
break
wring
smite
bone
victimiseUK
drive you up the wall
disrupt
tire
be a pest to
drive bananas
lead someone a merry dance
play cat and mouse
rub salt in wound
put through wringer
sadden
alarm
flood
inundate
encompass
enclose
disadvantage
nark
faze
disconcert
entangle
environ
make someone fed up
weigh down
spook
puzzle
pique
rasp
peeve
itch
frost
spite
ruffle
start in on
aggress
put the squeeze on
compass
fall upon
ring
circle
overcome
invade
girdle
give one the business
hem in
give the needle
psych
entreat
beg
implore
beseech
overtax
overstretch
tense
rark
ail
deluge
belabourUK
swamp
meddle
discombobulate
cause someone difficulty
discommodate
interfere
supplicate
exacerbate
scare
impede
hinder
insult
upbraid
stir up
cause concern to
cause discomfort to
make waves
scratch
scout
curdle
be a problem to
put someone to trouble
stretch
traumatizeUS
cow
impose upon
cause inconvenience to
make uneasy
make uncomfortable
make anxious
flip out
hang up
give someone bother
give trouble
strong-arm
threaten
beef
grouse
yowl
holler
mutter
grumble
kvetch
squeal
crab
yammer
wail
moan
whine
grump
scream
grouch
repine
kick
squawk
inveigh
whimper
bellyache
bleat
growl
murmur
yaup
croak
keen
grizzle
yawp
whinge
maunder
make someone go out of his way
make it tough
put in a spot
put on the spot
put to trouble
grate on
overextend
traumatiseUK
crunch
create difficulties for
menace
bulldoze
give chase
yap at
scratch around
rag on
track down
appeal to
enjoin
rub up the wrong way
get on your wick
mau-mau
coerce
blackjack
bogart
jostle
take out after
search high heaven
beat the bushes
turn inside out
turn upside down
overdo
egg
plead with
pray
conjure
impetrate
steamroller
dragoon
railroad
descend on
swarm around
converge on
hustle
set upon
mob
crowd around
crowd round
moan on at
be on one's tail
be on one's back
be on one's case
leave no stone unturned
noodge
burn
macerate
despoil
foray
cause to feel emotional strain
cause to feel mental strain
put on trial
make tense
tense up
put in traction
push to the limit
obsecrate
apply to
call on
dominate
push around
swagger
ride roughshod over
bluster
use strong-arm tactics on
snow under
shower
belaborUS
goose
invoke
con
plead
crave
demand
appeal
persuade
ask
plead to
sell
jerk around
take it out on
egg on
rattle one's cage
more ❯
Noun
▲
A person, in particular a woman, who nags or grumbles constantly
shrew
nag
termagant
complainer
fishwife
grumbler
harpy
harridan
moaner
nagger
carper
kvetch
targe
Xanthippe
fault-finder
virago
fury
vixen
tartar
witch
hag
she-devil
battle-axe
ballbreaker
battleaxeUK
battle-ax
battleaxUS
dragon
dragon lady
hellcat
hell cat
grandmother
bacchante
beldam
carline
carlin
trot
bag
jezebel
old woman
slattern
Medusa
more ❯
“His mother Aurelia was the village scold, brought repeatedly into court for creating turmoil with her tongue.”
Noun
▲
A person who habitually carps, who talks too much and regularly finds fault
carper
disparager
censurer
critic
caviller
nitpicker
knocker
hypercritic
faultfinder
caviler
niggler
criticizer
castigator
nagger
quibbler
nag
complainer
slanderer
reviler
scolder
vilifier
attacker
defamer
censor
belittler
muckraker
mud-slinger
fault-finder
maligner
doubter
more ❯
Noun
▲
The act of speaking to someone severely or angrily
rap over the knuckles
reproach
reproof
admonishment
admonition
castigation
censure
criticism
lambasting
remonstration
reproval
upbraiding
caning
rebuke
reprimand
roasting
row
scolding
blast
bollocking
carpeting
earful
lecture
rating
rollicking
upbraid
wigging
bawling-out
dressing-down
talking-to
telling-off
tell off
ticking off
tick off
haul over the coals
being put in one's place
verbal assault
opprobrium
flak
insults
animadversion
bad-mouthing
disfavourUK
reviling
disfavorUS
verbal abuse
reprobation
knock
brickbat
verbal
railing
disesteem
disgrace
slagging off
execration
derogation
mud-slinging
slamming
humiliation
scurrilousness
smear
denouncement
stigma
sarcasm
aspersion
slam
scandal
cut
ignominy
infamy
outrage
slap
dislike
distaste
brickbats
curses
detraction
hostility
slurs
dishonourUK
backbiting
epithet
dishonorUS
barb
notoriety
affront
dig
hit
disrespect
arraignment
ill repute
blot
swipe
black eye
backhanded compliment
dirty dig
loss of face
animosity
swearing
exception
demurral
dissent
expletives
discourtesy
rubbishing
disdain
rudeness
discountenance
unpopularity
enmity
jeremiad
degradation
discontentment
boycott
malice
ridicule
cursing
proscription
swear words
dis
diss
catcall
spot
brand
gird
dart
poke
foul language
critique
pan
thumbs down
venom
blur
taunt
faultfinding
signifying
nitpicking
call down
carping
cavillingUK
cavil
roast
cavilingUS
sledge
ill fame
bar sinister
put down
verbal disapproval
dump
nit-picking
verbal blasting
impertinence
discipline
decrying
battering
arrogance
malapertness
remark
injunction
caveat
heat
slap on the wrists
verbal thrashing
slandering
evil-speaking
admonishments
antagonism
exchange
screen
discourse
moralism
preachment
preaching
spitefulness
spite
fulminations
personality
name
implication
stigmatizationUS
cattiness
raps
knocks
depreciation
slanderousness
obscenity
indecency
examen
quibble
stream of abuse
exposé
takedown
notice
captiousness
inculpation
incrimination
indictment
mauling
savaging
coarseness
offensiveness
damnation
critical remark
bad notice
fire
ill will
belittlement
belittling
lessening
charge
smearing
damning
stigmatisationUK
upbraidment
infamousness
abusiveness
grossness
jeer
debasement
conviction
sentence
bad language
philippics
mocking
diminishment
slights
expose
zinger
reflection
demean
besmirch
bad reputation
ill favour
taint
ingloriousness
disregard
scar
cloud
provocation
gibe
teasing
judgmentUS
doom
backstabbing
underestimation
blasphemy
counterblast
curse
malediction
imprecation
anathema
excommunication
indignities
jibes
sneer
low esteem
smirch
rebukes
judgementUK
blaming
prejudice
punishment
threat
slanging
lack of respectability
ill favor
a bad press
verbals
quinine
knifing
hosing
ridiculing
taunting
mockery
goading
scoff
put-downs
repulsion
repugnance
bad reflection
treachery
blot on the escutcheon
skeleton in the cupboard
verbal attack
threat of punishment
name-calling
a slanging match
kicking around
trash talk
pushing around
crack
parting shot
jab
comeback
snappy comeback
blackball
zing
boo
nix
ostracism
hiss
discontent
animus
snub
a bawling-out
a wigging
a caning
a bashing
a rollicking
a roasting
a rocket
an earful
black list
aversion
antipathy
hate
abhorrence
revulsion
detestation
loathing
disgust
hatred
a row
critical remarks
a bollocking
grievance
mistreatment
onus
abomination
resentment
dispprobation
take-down
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