acerbity, anathematize, barrage, berate, captious, carping, castigate, caustic, censorious, censure, criticism, criticize, damning, denigrate, denunciation, derisory, detract, detractor, discredit, disparage, disparaging, excoriate, expurgate, grumble, lambast, lambaste, mordant, niggle, nitpick, obloquy, pillory, polemical, rebuke, reprehensible, reprove, satirical, satirize, scathing, travesty, vitriolic, vituperate, vituperation