Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| admonish | to reprove mildly or kindly. |
| admonisher | one who admonishes. |
| admonishingly | (Adv.) ADMONISHING. |
| admonishment | a firm rebuke. |
| admonition | gentle or friendly reproof. |
| admonitor | an admonisher; a monitor. |
| affront | to insult openly. |
| animadversion | hostile criticism; a critical or censorious remark. |
| animadvert | to comment critically on; to censure. |
| animadverter | one who animadverts, comments on critically. |
| attask | (Shakesp.) to take to task. |
| backbite | to criticise someone behind their back. |
| badmouth | to abuse. |
| berascal | to call a rascal. |
| berate | to scold. |
| blame | the attribution of fault; (verb) to find fault with. |
| blameable | deserving of blame. |
| blameably | (Adv.) BLAMEABLE, deserving of censure. |
| blameful | worthy of blame. |
| blamefully | (Adv.) BLAMEFUL, worthy of blame. |
| blamefulness | the state of being blameful. |
| blamelessness | the state of being blameless. |
| blamer | one who blames. |
| blameworthiness | the state of being blameworthy. |
| blameworthy | worthy of censure. |
| bollock | (Sl.) a testicle; (verb) to reprimand severely. |
| boo | a interjection expressing disapproval or contempt; (noun) a sound of disapproval or contempt; (verb) to make such a sound. |
| carper | one who carps, criticises. |
| carpet | a woven, felted or tufted covering for floors, stairs, etc; (verb) to scold, censure. |
| castigate | to scold, reprimand. |
| castigation | the act of castigating. |
| castigator | one who castigates or corrects. |
| castigatory | tending to castigate. |
| catcaller | one who catcalls. |
| censor | to blame, criticise. |
| censorable | able to be censored. |
| censorial | pertaining to a censor, or to the correction of public morals. |
| censorian | pertaining to a censor, or to the correction of public morals. |
| censorious | given to censure. |
| censoriously | (Adv.) CENSORIOUS, given to censure. |
| censoriousness | the state of being censorious. |
| censorship | the institution, system, or practice of censoring. |
| censurability | the ability to be censured. |
| censurable | worthy of censure. |
| censurableness | the state of being censurable. |
| censurably | (Adv.) CENSURABLE, worthy of censure. |
| censure | to criticise, blame. |
| censurer | one who censures. |
| chapter | a main division of a book; (verb) to reprimand, take to task. |
| chastenment | the state of being chastened. |
| chide | to scold. |
| chider | (Shakesp.) a quarrelsome person. |
| chidingly | (Adv.) CHIDING, scolding. |
| clapperclawer | one who scolds, abuses. |
| comeuppance | a deserved rebuke or penalty. |
| condemn | to criticize severely. |
| condemnation | the act of condemning. |
| condemnatory | serving to condemn. |
| condemningly | (Adv.) CONDEMNING. |
| contemnible | worthy of being contemned. |
| contemnibly | (Adv.) CONTEMNIBLE, worhty of being contemned. |
| critical | given to criticism. |
| critically | (Adv.) CRITICAL, given to criticism. |
| criticisable | able to be criticised. |
| criticise | to censure. |
| criticiser | one who criticises. |
| criticisingly | (Adv.) CRITICISING. |
| criticism | the act of criticising. |
| criticizable | able to be criticized. |
| criticize | to censure. |
| criticizer | one who criticizes. |
| criticizingly | (Adv.) CRITICIZING. |
| culpable | deserving blame or censure. |
| culpableness | the state of being culpable. |
| decrial | a crying down; a clamorous censure. |
| decrier | one who decries. |
| decry | to denounce. |
| denounce | to condemn openly. |
| denouncer | one who denounces. |
| denunciate | to denounce; to condemn publicly or solemnly. |
| denunciator | one who denunciates. |
| deploration | the act of deploring. |
| deprecate | to regret deeply; to express disapproval of. |
| deprecatingly | (Adv.) DEPRECATING. |
| deprecative | serving to deprecate. |
| deprecatively | (Adv.) DEPRECATIVE, serving to deprecate. |
| despight | a looking down with contempt. |
| despisal | the act of despising. |
| despise | to look down upon with contempt. |
| despisedness | (Milton) the state of being despised. |
| despisingly | (Adv.) DESPISING, looking down upon with contempt. |
| diatribe | (Greek) an abusive or bitter harangue. |
| disapprobation | the act or state of disapproving. |
| disapprobative | disapproving. |
| disapprobatory | disapproving. |
| disapproval | censure, disapprobation. |
| disapprove | to pass unfavorable judgment on. |
| disapprover | one who disapproves. |
| disapproving | passing unfavorable judgment on. |
| disapprovingly | (Adv.) DISAPPROVING. |
| discommend | to mention with disapprobation. |
| discommendation | the act of discommending. |
| disparager | one who disparages. |
| dispraise | to censure. |
| dispraiser | one who dispraises. |
| dispraisingly | (Adv.) DISPRAISING. |
| disproove | (Spenser) to disapprove of. |
| disproval | the act of disproving. |
| dyslogistic | conveying censure. |
| dyslogistically | (Adv.) DYSLOGISTIC, conveying censure. |
| dyslogy | unfavourable speech; censure. |
| excoriate | to abrade; to heap abuse. |
| exprobrate | (Arch.) to upbraid. |
| exprobration | the act of exprobrating, upbraiding. |
| exprobrative | expressing reproach. |
| exprobratory | expressing reproach. |
| fault | a failing or weakness of character (verb) to criticize |
| faultfinder | one given to faultfinding. |
| faultfinding | the act of finding fault. |
| faut | (Scots) to fault. |
| fulminate | to send forth censures or invectives. |
| henpeck | to dominate by nagging. |
| hypercritic | one who is hypercritical. |
| hypercritical | meticulously or excessively critical. |
| hypercritically | (Adv.) HYPERCRITICAL, meticulously or excessively critical. |
| hypercriticise | to criticise excessively. |
| hypercriticism | an instance of being hypercritical. |
| hypercriticize | to criticise excessively. |
| inculpate | to blame; to incriminate. |
| inculpative | serving to inculpate. |
| jawbation | a long, tedious rebuke or harangue. |
| jobation | a long, tedious rebuke or harangue. |
| jobe | to reprimand tediously. |
| mispraise | to praise amiss. |
| monitive | conveying admonition; admonitory. |
| moralise moralize | to preach morality. |
| moralising moralizing | the act of preaching morality. |
| nitpick | to find trifling fault with. |
| nitpicky | minutely critical. |
| objurgate | to scold or rebuke sharply, to berate. |
| objurgation | a rebuke, a scolding. |
| objurgative | chiding, scolding. |
| objurgator | one who objurgates. |
| objurgatory | chiding, scolding. |
| obloquial | relating to obloquy. |
| obloquy | censure. |
| outchide | to surpass in chiding. |
| outscold | (Shakesp.) to exceed in scolding. |
| overcritical | excessively critical. |
| philippic | a bitter condemnation, usually in a speech. |
| railer | one who rails. |
| rark | (NZ) to reprimand. |
| rebukable | worthy of rebuke. |
| rebuke | to criticize sharply. |
| rebukeful | containing rebuke; of the nature of rebuke. |
| rebukefully | (Adv.) REBUKEFUL, containing rebuke. |
| rebuker | one who rebukes. |
| rebukingly | (Adv.) REBUKING. |
| recensor | to censor again. |
| reprehend | to rebuke. |
| reprehender | one who reprehends. |
| reprehensive | serving to reprehend. |
| reprehensively | (Adv.) REPREHENSIVE, serving to reprehend. |
| repriefe | (Spenser) reproach, insult. |
| reprimand | to scold, censure. |
| reproach | censure, upbraiding; (verb) to find fault with. |
| reproachable | worthy of reproach. |
| reproachably | (Adv.) REPROACHABLE, worthy of reproach. |
| reproacher | one who reproaches. |
| reproachful | reproving. |
| reproachfully | (Adv.) REPROACHFUL, reproving. |
| reproachfulness | the state of being reproachful. |
| reproachingly | (Adv.) REPROACHING. |
| reproachless | without reproach. |
| reprobance | (Shakesp.) reprobation. |
| reprobater | one who reprobates. |
| reprobation | the act of reprobating. |
| reprobationary | expressing reprobation. |
| reprobative | condemnatory. |
| reprobatively | (Adv.) REPROBATIVE, condemnatory. |
| reprobatory | condemnatory. |
| reprovable | that can be reproved. |
| reproval | reproof. |
| reprove | to rebuke. |
| reprover | one who, or that which, reproves. |
| reprovingly | (Adv.) REPROVING. |
| revile | to denounce with abusive language. |
| revilement | the act of reviling. |
| reviler | one who reviles. |
| revilingly | (Adv.) REVILING. |
| sasarara | a scolding; a blow. |
| sassarara | a scolding; a blow. |
| scold | to rebuke harshly. |
| scoldable | able to be scolded. |
| scolder | one who scolds. |
| scolding | a harsh reproof. |
| scoldingly | (Adv.) SCOLDING. |
| shend | (Arch.) to put to shame, chide. |
| siserary | a scolding; a blow. |
| slang | extremely informal or vulgar language (verb) to scold |
| sloan | (Scots) a snub, reproof. |
| sneap | to nip, pinch. |
| sneb | to reprimand. |
| snebbe | to reprimand. |
| squabash | to crush esp with criticism; to lambaste. |
| stricture | an adverse criticism or censorious remark. |
| targe | a shield; (verb, Scots) to interrogate, reprimand. |
| threap | (Scots) to rebuke, to insist. |
| threaper | one that threaps, rebukes. |
| threep | (Scots) to rebuke, to insist. |
| threeper | one who threeps, rebukes. |
| throughgaun | a scolding. |
| tirade | (Fr.) a long vehement or angry harangue. |
| twight | (Spenser) to twit, upbraid. |
| ultracrepidate | to criticize beyond sphere of one's knowledge. |
| unapproving | not approving. |
| unapprovingly | (Adv.) UNAPPROVING, not approving. |
| unblamable | that cannot be blamed. |
| unblameable | that cannot be blamed. |
| unblamed | not blamed. |
| uncensorious | not censorious. |
| unrebuked | not rebuked. |
| unreproached | not reproached. |
| unreproved | not reproved. |
| unshent | (Arch.) not disgraced. |
| upbraid | to reproach. |
| upbraider | one who upbraids. |
| upbraidingly | (Adv.) UPBRAIDING. |
| upbray | (Spenser) to upbraid. |
| vituperable | deserving vituperation. |
| vituperate | to abuse or censure severely or abusively. |
| vituperation | abuse, rejection. |
| vituperative | uttering or given to censure. |
| vituperatively | (Adv.) VITUPERATIVE, uttering or given to censure. |
| vituperatory | uttering or given to censure. |
| wigging | a scolding. |
| wight | swift, nimble (noun) a creature or a person; (verb, Scots) to blame, lay the blame on |
| wite | (Scots) to blame, lay the blame on. |
| wyte | (Scots) to blame, lay the blame on. |
| yaff | (Scots) to bark, scold, nag. |
| yshend | (Spenser) to scold. |