I'm not being funny
shots fired
if I may say so
mudslinging
I'll have you know
detraction
if I may be so bold
Monday-morning quarterback
drub
dispraise
bad-talk
wide
debunk
pick apart
psogos
shall we say
call
just saying
assertorical
pile on
malign
scald
scorch
brickbat
blister
whip
not to put too fine a point on it
slash
you hear me
controversialize
reproach
work the oracle
shoot down
wordoid
fair go
by thunder
deprecating
dysphemism
invective
cast aspersions
jump down someone's throat
accusatively
curse
refutation
big talk
depreciative
condescendence
backbite
shoot one's mouth off
epiphonema
hurl
one
criticizable
fustigate
obscenity
afraid
castigate
insulting
take personally
censure
bash
earwig
beshrew
poison the well
straw man
Chinese compliment
pillory
eat someone alive
apotreptic
fashion statement
rant
right
I said what I said
fair cop
euphemism
destigmatize
bdelygmia
enable
disprobative
accusatorially
trash out
get to
wrench
accuse
vellicate
test someone's patience
innuendo
slur
in no uncertain terms
aspersion
lean on
calumniation
give someone what-for
rip to shreds
badmouth
scotch
strike out

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