give someone the gears
lambaste
beratingly
light someone's ass up
read off
get onto
read someone the riot act
lay out
give someone a speaking to
warm
rag
jaw
get stuck into
mouthfuck
vituperate
get someone's Irish up
displease
pull up
get someone's dander up
have one's ears pinned back
badmouth
rip into
throw stones
earbash
give someone what-for
rub up the wrong way
get on at
catch heat
reproach
raise someone's hackles
get someone's back up
vellicate
have the dirts with
give what for
come down on
get someone's goat
trash out
scoldee
draw fire
give stick
lecture
trout slap
give someone Hail Columbia
ether
chockling
chastise
tell off
handbagging
slap down
reproachment
pile on
give someone Jesse
give it large
fustigate
lash
take apart
bag out
objurgate
scorn
gasface
telling-off
screw around
mither
beat up on
bad-talk
lapidate
chew off
bawl out
harangue
berate
bust someone's balls
break someone's balls
call
give someone the shits
fill up
lay into
sneer
yarm
fuck
drib
bepommel
wrinch
fuster
dog
tush
eat someone alive
don't get mad, get even
dress down
high-hat
countercriticize
cast aspersions
criticizingly
harry
take someone's name in vain
ride
rouse
scorch
harassment
naggle
ridicule

English words for 'To scold or criticize someone.'

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