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-nouns
disapprobation, disapproval; improbation; disesteem, disvaluation, displacency; odium; dislike., dispraise, discommendation; blame, censure, obloquy; detraction; disparagement, depreciation; denunciation; condemnation; ostracism; black list., animadversion, reflection, stricture, objection, exception, criticism; sardonic grin, sardonic laugh; sarcasm, insinuation, inuendo; bad compliment, poor compliment, left-handed compliment., satire; sneer (contempt); taunt (disrespect); cavil, carping, censoriousness; hypercriticism (fastidiousness)., reprehension, remonstrance, expostulation, reproof, reprobation, admonition, increpation, reproach; rebuke, reprimand, castigation, jobation, lecture, curtain lecture, blow up, wigging, dressing, rating, scolding, trimming; correction, set down, rap on the knuckles, coup de bec, rebuff; slap, slap on the face; home thrust, hit; frown, scowl, black look., diatribe; jeremiad, jeremiade; tirade, philippic., clamor, outcry, hue and cry; hiss, hissing; sibilation, catcall; execration., chiding, upbraiding; exprobation, abuse, vituperation, invective, objurgation, contumely; hard words, cutting words, bitter words., evil-speaking; bad language; personality.
-verbs
disapprove; dislike; lament; object to, take exception to; be scandalized at, think ill of; view with disfavor, view with dark eyes, view with jaundiced eyes; nil admirari, disvalue; improbate., frown upon, look grave; bend the brows, knit the brows; shake the head at, shrug the shoulders; turn up the nose (contempt); 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, disparage; deprecate, speak ill of, not speak well of; condemn (find guilty)., blame; lay blame upon, cast blame upon; censure, fronder, reproach, pass censure on, reprobate, impugn., remonstrate, expostulate, reciminate., reprehend, chide, admonish; berate, betongue; bring to account, call to account, call 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, overhaul; give it one, give it one finely; gibbet., accuse; 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; exprobate, 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; bespatter; backbite; clapperclaw; 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 (disrespect); sneer at (despise); satirize, lampoon; defame (detract); depreciate, find fault with, criticize, cut up; pull to pieces, pick to pieces; take exception; cavil; peck at, nibble at, carp at; be censorious; pick holes, pick a hole, pick a hole in one's coat; make a fuss about., take down, set down; snub, snap one up, give a rap on the knuckles; throw a stone at, throw a stone in one's garden; have a fling, have a snap at; have words with, pluck a crow with; give one a wipe, give one a lick with the rough side of the tongue., incur blame, excite disapprobation, scandalize, shock, revolt; get a bad name, forfeit one's good opinon, be under a cloud, come under the ferule, bring a hornet's nest about one's ears., take blame, stand corrected; have to answer for.
-adjectives
disapproving; scandalized., disparaging, condemnatory, damnatory, denunciatory, reproachful, abusive, objurgatory, clamorous, vituperative; defamatory., satirical, sarcastic, sardonic, cynical, dry, sharp, cutting, biting, severe, withering, trenchant, hard upon; censorious, critical, captious, carping, hypercritical; fastidious; sparing of praise, grudging praise.
-adverbs
with a wry face; reproachfully, tell it not in Gath!
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