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Strongest matches

• insult
• offend
• persecute
• revile

Strong matches

• backbite
• bash
• belittle
• berate
• calumniate
• cap
• castigate
• decry
• defame
• derogate
• discount
• knock
• minimize
• nag
• oppress
• reproach
• ride
• scold
• signify
• slam
• slap
• smear
• sound
• trash
• upbraid
• vilify
• vituperate
• zing

Weak matches

• bad-mouth
• blow off
• cuss out
• cut down
• cut to the quick
• dump on
• give a black eye
• hurl brickbat
• pick on
• put down
• rag on
• rip up
• run down
• sling mud
• swear at
• tear apart

Strongest matches

• blot
• smudge
• stain
• sully
• tarnish

Strong matches

• asperse
• attack
• blotch
• calumniate
• decry
• defame
• defile
• denigrate
• dishonor
• knock
• libel
• malign
• rip
• slander
• slur
• taint
• traduce
• vilify

Weak matches

• bad-mouth
• give a black eye
• rip up and down

Strongest matches

• bang up
• batter
• blacken
• crush
• injure
• mar
• wound

Strong matches

• beat
• black
• blemish
• contuse
• damage
• deface
• mark
• pound
• pulverize
• zing

Weak match

• bung up

Strongest matches

• bilk
• con
• deceive
• defraud
• delude
• dupe
• fleece
• hoodwink
• mislead
• swindle
• trick
• victimize

Strong matches

• bamboozle
• beat
• beguile
• bleed
• bunco
• burn
• caboodle
• chisel
• cozen
• crib
• cross
• diddle
• do
• finagle
• flimflam
• fudge
• gouge
• hose
• milk
• ream
• rook
• sandbag
• scam
• screw
• shaft
• short
• shuck
• skin
• snow
• stiff
• sucker
• take
• trim
• two-time

Weak matches

• double-cross
• double-deal
• fast talk
• give bum steer
• jerk around
• pull one's leg
• rip off
• rope in
• take for a ride
• take in
• take out

Strongest matches

• blame
• blast
• castigate
• censure
• chastise
• chide
• condemn
• denounce
• excoriate
• reprimand

Strong matches

• bash
• blister
• carp
• clobber
• disparage
• fluff
• fustigate
• hit
• knock
• lambaste
• pan
• rap
• reprehend
• reprobate
• reprove
• rip
• roast
• scorch
• skin
• slam
• slog
• slug
• trash
• trim
• zap

Weak matches

• animadvert on
• come down on
• cut down
• cut to bits
• cut up
• denunciate
• dress down
• find fault
• fulminate against
• give bad press
• jump on
• nag at
• nit-pick
• pick at
• scathe
• skin alive
• take down

Strongest matches

• belittle
• condemn
• denounce
• minimize

Strong matches

• abuse
• asperse
• calumniate
• censure
• defame
• depreciate
• derogate
• detract
• devalue
• diminish
• discount
• discredit
• disgrace
• disparage
• downgrade
• hit
• knock
• lower
• malign
• pan
• rap
• reprehend
• reprobate
• slam
• traduce
• underestimate
• underrate
• undervalue
• vilify

Weak matches

• bad-mouth
• cry down
• dump on
• mark down
• opprobriate
• poor-mouth
• put down
• rail against
• run down
• take swipe at
• throw stones at
• write off

Strongest matches

• besmirch
• denigrate
• discredit
• disgrace
• disparage
• malign
• scandalize
• smear
• vilify

Strong matches

• asperse
• belie
• blacken
• blister
• calumniate
• detract
• dishonor
• knock
• pan
• roast
• scorch
• slam
• stigmatize
• traduce
• vituperate

Weak matches

• bad-mouth
• cast aspersions
• cast slur on
• put zingers on
• speak evil of
• throw mud at
• villainize

Strongest matches

• dupe
• hoodwink
• misguide
• mislead

Strong matches

• beguile
• betray
• bluff
• cheat
• con
• cozen
• gull
• hoax
• jive
• juggle
• outfox
• snow
• trick

Weak matches

• caboodle
• disinform
• double-cross
• illude
• impose on
• lead up garden path
• mousetrap
• play trick on
• string along
• sucker
• take in

Strongest matches

• disdain
• disparage
• mock
• ridicule
• scoff
• scorn
• taunt

Strong matches

• banter
• chaff
• contemn
• detract
• flout
• gibe
• jeer
• jolly
• kid
• knock
• pan
• pooh-pooh
• quiz
• rag
• rally
• razz
• rib
• roast
• slam
• sneer
• twit

Weak matches

• dis
• dump on
• laugh at
• lout
• put down

Strong matches

• afflict
• aggrieve
• agonize
• ail
• bother
• break
• bug
• depress
• desolate
• discombobulate
• disquiet
• disturb
• dog
• eat
• get
• grieve
• harass
• harry
• hound
• hurt
• injure
• irk
• irritate
• miff
• nag
• needle
• oppress
• pain
• peeve
• perplex
• pester
• plague
• push
• rack
• sadden
• strain
• strap
• stress
• torment
• torture
• trouble
• try
• vex
• weigh
• wound

Weak matches

• be on one's case
• burn up
• get to
• give a hard time
• make it tough for
• nit-pick
• pick on
• push buttons
• tick off

Weak matches

• bamboozle
• beguile
• bend the rules
• bilk
• burn
• caboodle
• chisel
• con
• deceive
• defraud
• double-cross
• double-deal
• dupe
• finagle
• fleece
• flimflam
• fudge
• hit below the belt
• hoodwink
• hose
• mislead
• pull something funny
• rip off
• rook
• sandbag
• scam
• screw
• shaft
• stack the cards
• stretch the rules
• sucker
• swindle
• trick
• victimize