- Censure - severe reproach - The act of condemning or pronouncing to be wrong;
censure; blame; disapprobation. - The act of judicially condemning, or adjudging
guilty, unfit for use, or forfeited; the act of dooming to punishment
or forfeiture. - The state of being condemned. - The ground or reason of condemning.
- Rebuke - Scold - To come back to, or come home to, as a matter of
blame; to bring shame or disgrace upon; to disgrace. - To attribute blame to; to allege something disgraceful
against; to charge with a fault; to censure severely or contemptuously;
to upbraid. - The act of reproaching; censure mingled with contempt;
contumelious or opprobrious language toward any person; abusive
reflections; as, severe reproach. - A cause of blame or censure; shame; disgrace. - An object of blame, censure, scorn, or derision.
- Denunciatory or railing speech - Hurtful, insulting language - Hurtfull insulting language - Characterized by invection; critical; denunciatory;
satirical; abusive; railing. - An expression which inveighs or rails against a person;
a severe or violent censure or reproach; something uttered or written,
intended to cast opprobrium, censure, or reproach on another; a harsh
or reproachful accusation; -- followed by against, having reference to
the person or thing affected; as an invective against tyranny.