rip, jab, mock, bait, impersonate, tease, exaggerate, compete, play around, harass, ridicule, joke, overstate, titter, torment, razz, goad, clown, make fun of, rub the wrong way, laugh at, fool around, snark, crack jokes, rag on, wisecrack, give someone a hard time, jest, quip, kid, josh, poke fun at, rib, yank someone's chain

point, frame, scold, charge, tear into, attack, insinuate, harp, chastise, berate, carp, throw under the bus, blame, reproach, pin blame on, lash out, accuse, proscribe, lay blame on, incriminate, rebuke, reprimand, lecture, ream out, fault, harangue, condemn, castigate, moralize, rant, find (fault)

hammer, unload, scold, pan, correct, critique, criticize, judge, chastise, berate, grumble, decry, discredit, belittle, deride, inveigh against, rebuke, ream out, air (a grievance), find fault, attack (with vitriolic language), take to task, rail against, savage

knock, trash, tear down, challenge, attack, slander, defame, vilify, marginalize, deflate, decry, disparage, slur, debase, insult, revile, smear, repudiate, trivialize, demean, discredit, demonize, put down, malign, belittle, denigrate, badmouth, dis, deride, inveigh against, rip apart, mar, deprecate, scoff at, disdain, snipe

bash, slam, hammer, abrade, unload, dump, trash, ventilate, vent, tear down, spout, backstab, chastise, berate, release, complain, grumble, gossip, put down, pick apart, inveigh against, tick off, air, rip apart, rebuke, ream out, take issue with, pour out, express (disdain), voice (complaints)