find fault

Weak matches

• belittle
• criticize
• cut down to size
• dis
• disparage
• dump on
• knock
• malign
• mudsling
• pan
• pooh pooh
• put down
• rap
• rip
• roast
• run down
• slam
• slander
• take a dig at
• take down a peg
• tear down
• tear to pieces

Strongest matches

• grumble
• quibble

Strong matches

• bother
• cavil
• censure
• complain
• criticize
• fuss
• knock
• nitpick
• objurgate
• pan
• peck
• reproach

Weak matches

• hypercriticize
• pick at

Strong matches

• carp
• criticize

Strongest matches

• admonish
• berate
• blame
• castigate
• censure
• condemn
• rebuke
• reprimand
• reproach
• scold
• upbraid

Strong matches

• check
• flay
• monish
• rate
• reprehend
• reprove

Weak matches

• call down
• call on the carpet
• exprobate
• give a hard time
• lesson
• slap on the wrist
• speak to
• take down
• take down a peg
• talk to
• tell off
• tick off

Strongest matches

• accuse
• criticize
• denounce
• disagree
• fret
• gripe
• grumble
• lament
• moan
• object
• oppose
• protest

Strong matches

• ascribe
• attack
• beef
• bellyache
• bemoan
• bewail
• bitch
• carp
• cavil
• charge
• contravene
• defy
• demur
• deplore
• deprecate
• differ
• disapprove
• dissent
• expostulate
• fuss
• gainsay
• grieve
• groan
• grouse
• growl
• impute
• indict
• lay
• nag
• refute
• remonstrate
• repine
• reproach
• snivel
• wail
• whimper
• whine
• yammer

Weak matches

• kick up a fuss
• look askance
• make a fuss
• sound off
• take exception to

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
• do a number on
• dress down
• fulminate against
• give bad press
• jump on
• nag at
• nit-pick
• pick at
• scathe
• skin alive
• take down

Strong matches

• bellyache
• carp
• gripe
• grouse
• grumble
• moan
• murmur
• mutter
• scold
• whine

Strongest matches

• carp
• fuss
• gripe
• groan
• moan
• squawk

Strong matches

• bellyache
• grouch
• grouse
• kick
• kvetch
• protest
• pule
• repine
• scold
• snivel
• whine

Strongest match

• slam

Strong matches

• abuse
• belittle
• blame
• carp
• cavil
• censure
• condemn
• denounce
• deprecate
• disparage
• lambaste
• reprehend
• reprobate
• skin

Weak matches

• alive
• denunciate
• run down

Strongest matches

• annoy
• badger
• berate
• fuss
• hector
• hound
• irk
• irritate
• pester
• scold
• tease
• torment
• vex

Strong matches

• bait
• bug
• dog
• eat
• egg
• goad
• harry
• heckle
• importune
• needle
• nudge
• plague
• prod
• provoke
• ride
• upbraid
• urge
• worry

Weak matches

• carp at
• give a hard time
• pick at
• take it out on
• work on

Strong matches

• argue
• carp
• cavil
• complain
• fuss
• grouse
• grumble
• moan
• nag
• object

Weak matches

• badger
• bait
• blame
• bully
• carp
• cavil
• criticize
• foment
• get at
• get to
• goad
• hector
• incite
• instigate
• quibble
• start
• tease
• torment

Strongest matches

• badger
• bully
• get at
• tease
• torment

Weak matches

• bait
• blame
• carp
• cavil
• criticize
• foment
• get to
• goad
• hector
• incite
• instigate
• pick at
• provoke
• quibble
• start

Strongest matches

• argue
• bicker
• break with
• carp
• complain
• differ
• fall out
• feud
• spar
• squabble
• tangle
• wrangle

Strong matches

• altercate
• battle
• brawl
• bump
• caterwaul
• cavil
• charge
• clash
• collide
• contend
• contest
• disapprove
• dispute
• dissent
• divide
• embroil
• fight
• hassle
• row
• scrap
• spat
• strive
• struggle
• vary
• war

Weak matches

• be at loggerheads
• cross swords
• get tough with
• have it out
• have words
• lock horns
• mix it up
• object to
• set to
• take exception
• take on

Strong matches

• animadvert
• blame
• censure
• challenge
• combat
• complain
• criticize
• decry
• demur
• deprecate
• disapprove
• disparage
• dispute
• dissent
• except
• expostulate
• fight
• inveigh
• kick
• nag
• object
• oppose
• protest
• rain
• recriminate
• resist
• scold
• withstand

Weak matches

• frown upon
• pick at
• sound off
• take exception
• take issue

Strong matches

• abuse
• accuse
• asperse
• berate
• blame
• calumniate
• castigate
• censure
• condemn
• curse
• denounce
• growl
• insult
• lambaste
• lash
• malign
• rail
• rate
• reproach
• revile
• scold
• smear
• traduce
• upbraid
• vilify

Weak matches

• bark at
• bawl out
• chew out
• rip into
• run down
• tear into
• tongue-lash
• yell at