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PDF diatribe; jeremiad,
jeremiade; tirade, philippic.
clamor, outcry, hue and cry; hiss, hissing; sibilance, sibilation,
catcall; execration &c. 908.
chiding, upbraiding &c.v.; exprobation[obs3], abuse, vituperation,
invective, objurgation, contumely; hard words, cutting words, bitter words.
evil-speaking; bad language &c. 908; personality.
V. disapprove; dislike &c. 867; lament &c. 839; object to, take
exception to; be scandalized at, think ill of; view with disfavor, view with dark eyes, view with jaundiced eyes; nil admirari[Lat], disvalue[obs3]; improbate[obs3].
frown upon, look grave; bend the brows, knit the brows; shake the head
at, shrug the shoulders; turn up the nose &c. (contempt) 930; look askance, look black upon; look with an evil eye; make a wry face, make a wry mouth at; set one’s face against.
dispraise, discommend[obs3], disparage; deprecate, speak ill of, not
speak well of; condemn &c. (find guilty) 971.
blame; lay blame upon, cast blame upon; censure, fronder[Fr],
reproach, pass censure on, reprobate, impugn.
remonstrate, expostulate, recriminate.
reprehend, chide, admonish; berate, betongue[obs3]; bring to account,
call to account, call over the coals, rake over the coals, call to order; take to task, reprove, lecture, bring to book; read a lesson, read a lecture to; rebuke, correct.
reprimand, chastise, castigate, lash, blow up, trounce, trim, laver la
tete[Fr], overhaul; give it one, give it one finely; gibbet.
accuse &c. 938; impeach, denounce; hold up to reprobation, hold up to
execration; expose, brand, gibbet, stigmatize; show up, pull up, take up; cry “shame” upon; be outspoken; raise a hue and cry against.
execrate &c. 908; exprobate[obs3], speak daggers, vituperate; abuse,
abuse like a pickpocket; scold, rate, objurgate, upbraid, fall foul of; jaw; rail, rail at, rail in good set terms; bark at; anathematize, call names; call by hard names, call by ugly names; avile|, revile; vilify, vilipend[obs3]; bespatter; backbite; clapperclaw[obs3]; rave against, thunder against, fulminate against; load with reproaches.
exclaim against, protest against, inveigh against, declaim against,
cry out against, raise one’s voice against.
decry; cry down, run down, frown down; clamor, hiss, hoot, mob,
ostracize, blacklist; draw up a round robin, sign a round robin.
animadvert upon, reflect upon; glance at; cast reflection, cast
reproach, cast a slur upon; insinuate, damn with faint praise; “hint a fault and hesitate dislike”; not to be able to say much for.
scoff at, point at; twit, taunt &c. (disrespect) 929; sneer at &c.
(despise) 230; satirize, lampoon; defame &c. (detract) 934; depreciate, find fault with, criticize, cut up; pull to pieces, pick to pieces; take exception; cavil; peck at, nibble at, carp at; be censorious &c. adj.; pick holes, pick a hole, pick a hole in one’s
clamor, outcry, hue and cry; hiss, hissing; sibilance, sibilation,
catcall; execration &c. 908.
chiding, upbraiding &c.v.; exprobation[obs3], abuse, vituperation,
invective, objurgation, contumely; hard words, cutting words, bitter words.
evil-speaking; bad language &c. 908; personality.
V. disapprove; dislike &c. 867; lament &c. 839; object to, take
exception to; be scandalized at, think ill of; view with disfavor, view with dark eyes, view with jaundiced eyes; nil admirari[Lat], disvalue[obs3]; improbate[obs3].
frown upon, look grave; bend the brows, knit the brows; shake the head
at, shrug the shoulders; turn up the nose &c. (contempt) 930; look askance, look black upon; look with an evil eye; make a wry face, make a wry mouth at; set one’s face against.
dispraise, discommend[obs3], disparage; deprecate, speak ill of, not
speak well of; condemn &c. (find guilty) 971.
blame; lay blame upon, cast blame upon; censure, fronder[Fr],
reproach, pass censure on, reprobate, impugn.
remonstrate, expostulate, recriminate.
reprehend, chide, admonish; berate, betongue[obs3]; bring to account,
call to account, call over the coals, rake over the coals, call to order; take to task, reprove, lecture, bring to book; read a lesson, read a lecture to; rebuke, correct.
reprimand, chastise, castigate, lash, blow up, trounce, trim, laver la
tete[Fr], overhaul; give it one, give it one finely; gibbet.
accuse &c. 938; impeach, denounce; hold up to reprobation, hold up to
execration; expose, brand, gibbet, stigmatize; show up, pull up, take up; cry “shame” upon; be outspoken; raise a hue and cry against.
execrate &c. 908; exprobate[obs3], speak daggers, vituperate; abuse,
abuse like a pickpocket; scold, rate, objurgate, upbraid, fall foul of; jaw; rail, rail at, rail in good set terms; bark at; anathematize, call names; call by hard names, call by ugly names; avile|, revile; vilify, vilipend[obs3]; bespatter; backbite; clapperclaw[obs3]; rave against, thunder against, fulminate against; load with reproaches.
exclaim against, protest against, inveigh against, declaim against,
cry out against, raise one’s voice against.
decry; cry down, run down, frown down; clamor, hiss, hoot, mob,
ostracize, blacklist; draw up a round robin, sign a round robin.
animadvert upon, reflect upon; glance at; cast reflection, cast
reproach, cast a slur upon; insinuate, damn with faint praise; “hint a fault and hesitate dislike”; not to be able to say much for.
scoff at, point at; twit, taunt &c. (disrespect) 929; sneer at &c.
(despise) 230; satirize, lampoon; defame &c. (detract) 934; depreciate, find fault with, criticize, cut up; pull to pieces, pick to pieces; take exception; cavil; peck at, nibble at, carp at; be censorious &c. adj.; pick holes, pick a hole, pick a hole in one’s
