What is another word for scold ?

To criticize or find fault with

give someone a bollocking

give someone a caning

give someone a wigging

give someone some stick

give someone a mouthful

rap over the knuckles

give someone a dressing-down

give someone an earful

give someone a roasting

give someone a rollicking

give someone a telling-off

give someone hell

put on the mat

tear off a strip

give someone a rating

give someone what for

send someone away with a flea in their ear

have someone on the carpet

keep after

slap someone's wrist

give the business

bite someone's head off

jump down someone's throat

lose one's temper with

belabor^US

belabour^UK

pummel^US

pummelled^UK

give a piece of one's mind

jump down one's throat

minimize^US

stigmatize^US

minimise^UK

ostracize^US

stigmatise^UK

ostracise^UK

express disapproval of

moralise^UK

moralize^US

satirize^US

dishonor^US

dishonour^UK

satirise^UK

blacken someone's reputation

rap someone the knuckles

drag over the coals

rap across the knuckles

severely reprimand

tear someone a new one

give someone a dressing down

give someone a telling off

come down on like a ton of bricks

give someone a carpeting

eat out

criticize hatefully

send someone away with a flea in his

mete out punishment to

give an injunction to

give someone a ticking-off

give something a bad press

give vent to one's emotions

give free rein to one's emotions

put someone in their place

take down a peg or two

make a protest to

tear to pieces

thunder

give a tongue-lashing

make a protest against

complain vociferously about

disagree violently with

oppose strongly

put up a fight against

kick up a stink about

rage against

kick against

complain bitterly about

take great exception to

scandalize^US

scandalise^UK

give someone a bad press

give something a battering

sully the reputation of

marginalize^US

marginalise^UK

blacken the reputation of

taint

trivialize^US

conduct a smear campaign against

trivialise^UK

sully someone's reputation

blacken the character of

demonize^US

demonise^UK

drag through the mire

treat disrespectfully

run a smear campaign against

laugh off

treat with contempt

take a swipe at

drag someone's name through the mud

drag someone's name through the mire

write false reports about

blacken someone's name

drag name through mud

speak of with disfavour

snap someone's head off

look down one's nose at

injure the reputation of

cast aspersion

taint someone's name

blacken someone's character

stain someone's good name

accuse falsely

sully someone's name

tarnish someone's name

hurt somebody's feelings

defame someone's character

not be able to stomach

be contemptuous about

turn up one's nose at

spit in the eye of

dig

jinx

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“Joe tried to interject his apologies, but she continued to scold him before he could get a word in.”

Verb

To continuously remind or complain to (someone) in an annoying way

breathe down someone's neck

get on someone's back

tyrannize^US

tyrannise^UK

give someone the hump

antagonize^US

antagonise^UK

drive round the twist

make somebody's hackles rise

rub you up the wrong way

ruffle one's feathers

give a bad time

drive you up the wall

put someone's nose out of joint

tantalize^US

tantalise^UK

be a pain in the neck

work up

give the business

set one's teeth on edge

be a thorn in someone's side

get up someone's nose

stroke someone's hair the wrong way

push someon's buttons

push button

heat up

grill

breath down someone's neck

eat away at

start

rattle someone's cage

get on the wrong side of

make an enemy of somebody

be a thorn in someone's flesh

be like a red rag to a bull

agonize^US

agonise^UK

rule with a rod of iron

rule with an iron hand

get on someone's case

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Verb

To complain or grumble

make a mountain out of a molehill

kick up a stink about

make a song and dance

make a big thing out of

make a big thing of

make a meal of

complain vehemently about

talk under your breath

beat one's breast about

cry over spilt milk^UK

beat one's breast

cry over spilled milk^US

express objections to

lodge a protest against

take issue

express disapproval of

express disagreement with

baulk^UK

balk^US

wring one's hands over

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Verb

Get onto

Verb

To feel or express violent uncontrollable anger

work oneself into sweat

have steam coming out of one's ears

clamour^UK

clamor^US

smoulder^UK

smolder^US

be hot under the collar

flip

get steamed up

be in a rage

get hot under the collar

shoot off one's mouth

have a conniption fit

get one's knickers in a twist

give vent to one's feelings

have one's hackles up

feel one's hackles rise

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Verb

go at it hammer and tongs

To have a quarrel or argument with someone

have a misunderstanding

tongue-lash

bawl out

fight like cat and dog

be at sixes and sevens

have a difference of opinion

make a big thing about

be of a different opinion

be incompatible

be in dispute

have a different opinion

be at each other's throats

contradict each other

bandy words with somebody

put your heads together about

consider the pros and cons of

weigh up the pros and cons of

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Noun

A person, in particular a woman, who nags or grumbles constantly

battleaxe^UK

battleax^US

tiger mom^US

tiger mum^UK

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“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

Noun