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taking to taskphrasepresent participle of take to task to express one's unfavorable opinion of the worth or quality ofHe took his rival to task during the TV interview. blaming, censuring, condemning, criticizing, denouncing, dispraising, dissing(slang), faulting, knocking, panning, reprehending, slagging(chiefly British) skewering, tweakingassailing, attacking, blasting, clobbering, slamming, slashingnicking (at), sniping (at)beefing, bellyaching, bitching, carping, caviling(or cavilling), complaining, crabbing, croaking, fussing, griping, grousing, growling, grumbling, kicking, kvetching, moaning, murmuring, muttering, niggling, quibbling, whiningadmonishing, chiding, drubbing, rebuking, reprimanding, reproaching, reprovingberating, castigating, crucifying, excoriating, flaying, gibbeting, hammering, keelhauling, lambasting, lashing, pillorying, scolding, upbraidingbad-mouthing, belittling, decrying, deriding, discommending, disparaging, putting down coming down hard (on), finding fault (with) extolling, lauding, praising approving, commending, endorsing(also indorsing), recommending, sanctioning to criticize (someone) severely or angrily especially for personal failingsHe took the landscaper to task for once again letting the bushes get overgrown. basting, bawling out, berating, calling down, castigating, chastising, chewing out, dressing down, flaying, hammering, jawing, keelhauling, lambasting, lecturing, ragging, railing (at or against), ranting (at), rating, reaming (out), rebuking, reprimanding, reproaching, scolding, scoring, tongue-lashing, upbraiding admonishing, chiding, remonstrating (with), reprovingabusing, assailing, attacking, bad-mouthing, blaming, blasting, censuring, condemning, criticizing, crucifying, denouncing, dissing(slang), excoriating, faulting, haranguing, knocking, lacing (into), lashing, panning, reprehending, reviling, scourging, slamming, vituperatingbelittling, disparaging, mocking, putting downridiculing, scoffing, scorning laying into, reading the riot act (to) approving, endorsing(also indorsing), sanctioningextolling, lauding, praising |