Words similar to berate

Example sentences for: berate

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Paul Krugman loves to berate journalists for their ignorance of economics, particularly his economics, but on this occasion, I fear, his logic is more addled than usual.
Landsburg goes on to berate and insult those who disagree, using phrases like "their pathological concern for future generations" and "an epidemic of hysteria," ending the piece with the diagnosis of "a mild air of intellectual schizophrenia" for those of us who don't subscribe to his beliefs.
In actuality, however, they unremittingly berate "the left" but rarely challenge the settled understandings of conservative or neoconservative readers.
Jean Shepherd, the recently deceased radio genius who created magic with the spoken word, used to berate Snoopy back in the late '60s.