To notice with disapprobation or some degree of censure; to disparage, to criticize.
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: censure, find fault, denigrate, downplay, admonish, animadvert, bash, bawl out, slash, lash, blame, scorch, blast, berate, berisp, castigate, charge, chastise, chew out, chide, condemn, criticize, denounce, denunciate, deprecate, derogate, dispraise, drag, dress down, eat someone alive, excoriate, fulminate, get at, get down, get up, give somebody a piece of one's mind, give somebody what-for, inveigh, lace into, lambaste, lay into, lecture, light into, objurgate, pooh-pooh, put someone on blast, rate, read somebody the riot act, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprove, rip into, rubbish, savage, scold, skewer, slam, slate, tear into, tell off, threap, tick off, tosh, keelhaul, upbraid, vilify, vituperate, bagatellize, banalize, belittle, cut down, de-emphasize, degrade, disparage, lilliputianize, make little of, make nothing of, minimize, play down, set at nought, superficialize, trivialize, underestimate, underplay, understate, vilipend
Antonyms: none provided
