- Chastise - Find fault - Rebuke - Reprimand - Scold - To rebuke; to reprove; to scold; to find fault
with. - Fig.: To be noisy about; to chafe against.
- Deliver a sermon - Evangelise - Explain fruit contains wormy core - Find fault - Initially, Protestant reformers each deliver a sermon - Pontificate - To proclaim or publish tidings; specifically, to
proclaim the gospel; to discourse publicly on a religious subject, or
from a text of Scripture; to deliver a sermon.
- Argue needlessly - Equivocate - Find trivial fault - Object in small way - Petty objection - Raise petty objections - To raise captious and frivolous objections; to find fault
without good reason.