- 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 - 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. - To give serious advice on morals or religion; to
discourse in the manner of a preacher.
- Argue needlessly - Find trivial fault - Object in small way - Petty objection - Raise petty objections - To raise captious and frivolous objections; to find fault
without good reason. - To cavil at.