| argument(noun, challenge, disagreement, doubt, opposition) |
| award |
| backbiting(noun, slight, scorn, ridicule, slur) |
| barb(noun, insult, comment, sneer, gibe) |
| berating(noun, abuse, censure, blame, reproach) |
| blast(noun, censure, protest, reproach, disapproval) |
| book review(expression, study, notice, judgment, examination) |
| captiousness |
| censoriousness(censure, condemnation) |
| charge(noun, action, trouble, attack, censure) |
| chewing-out(noun, censure, reproach, reproof) |
| clarification(noun, explanation, observation, comment) |
| contention(noun, clinkers, terrorism, sonance, dissertation) |
| critic |
| critical review(expression, idiom) |
| criticize |
| cut(noun, attack, scorn, censure, informal) |
| declaration(noun, order, communication, information, sign) |
| defamation(noun, slight, abuse, censure, blame) |
| derision(noun, cut, scorn, twist, censure) |