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lecturingverbpresent participle of lecture to criticize (someone) severely or angrily especially for personal failingsthe frustrated manager lectured the waitstaff about its poor level of service basting, bawling out, berating, calling down, castigating, chastising, chewing out, dressing down, flaying, hammering, jawing, keelhauling, lambasting, 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), taking to task approving, endorsing(also indorsing), sanctioningextolling, lauding, praising to give a formal often extended talk on a subjecta physician who has lectured before countless audiences on the importance of diet and exercise in avoiding heart disease declaiming, descanting, discoursing, expatiating, haranguing, orating, speaking, talking reciting, soliloquizingdisserting, expounding, pontificating, sermonizingmouthing, spoutingfilibustering holding forth, taking the floor |