vituperare: reprehendere: (verbis) increpare: increpitare: culpare [SYN. in BLAME]: objurgare (to reproach with a fault; opposed to laudare): conviciari (to make railing accusations): exagitare, destringere (to make sharp attacks on a man): corripere (to blame with harsh words): cavillari (to blame with irony): exprobare (alicui aliquid, to reproach a man with something as dishonorable to him). To chide anybody on account of anything, reprehendere aliquem de or in aliqua re; vituperare aliquem de aliqua re; objurgare aliquem de, or in aliqua re, or aliqua re only. To be chided, objurgari, vituperari; in vituperationem incidere, cadere, venire, or adduci; vituperationem subire. To chide in gentle terms, levi brachio objurgare aliquem (de aliqua re).