Synonyms of the word

earful

• n. (informal) a reprimand, castigation or telling off.
• n. (informal) intimate gossip.

castigation

• n. Corrective punishment; chastisement; reproof; pungent criticism.
• n. (obsolete) Emendation; correction.

comment

• n. A spoken remark.
• n. (programming) A remark in source code which does not affect the behavior of the program.
• v. (transitive) To remark.
• v. (intransitive, with "on" or "about") To make remarks or notes.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To comment or remark on.
• v. (transitive, software, of code) To insert comments into (source code).
• v. (transitive, software, of code) To comment out (code); to disable by converting into a comment.

going-over

• n. Alternative spelling of going over.

gossip

• n. Someone who likes to talk about someone else’s private or personal business.
• n. Idle talk about someone’s private or personal matters, especially someone not present.
• n. A genre in contemporary media, usually focused on the personal affairs of celebrities.
• n. (obsolete) A sponsor; a godfather or godmother.
• v. To talk about someone else's private or personal business, especially in a way that spreads the information.
• v. To talk idly.

rebuke

• n. A harsh criticism.
• v. To criticise harshly; to reprove.

reprehension

• n. the act, or an expression, of criticism, censure or condemnation; reprimand.

reprimand

• n. A severe, formal or official reproof; reprehension, rebuke, private or public.
• v. To reprove in a formal or official way.

reproof

• n. An act or instance of reproving; a rebuke.
• v. To proof again.

reproval

• n. The act of reproving.

scuttlebutt

• n. (nautical, countable) A butt with a scuttle, a keg of drinking water with a hole cut in it, on board ship.
• n. (informal, uncountable) Gossip, rumour, idle chatter.

upbraiding

• v. present participle of upbraid.
• adj. Reproachful; chiding; censorious.
• n. An instance of severe criticism or rebuke.