Synonyms of lecturing

lecturing

verb

present participle of lecture

1

as in scolding

to criticize (someone) severely or angrily especially for personal failings

the frustrated manager lectured the waitstaff about its poor level of service

Synonyms & Similar Words

• scolding
• reprimanding
• criticizing
• blaming
• berating
• admonishing
• chastising
• upbraiding
• castigating
• attacking
• rebuking
• ragging
• mocking
• lambasting
• jawing
• reproaching
• flaying
• hammering
• calling down
• dressing down
• ranting (at)
• reaming (out)
• faulting
• scoring
• basting
• bawling out
• chiding
• railing (at or against)
• rating
• keelhauling
• tongue-lashing
• chewing out
• haranguing
• denouncing
• laying into
• condemning
• slamming
• reproving
• knocking
• reading the riot act (to)
• excoriating
• ridiculing
• lashing
• belittling
• assailing
• blasting
• taking to task
• panning
• crucifying
• censuring
• reviling
• remonstrating (with)
• disparaging
• abusing
• scoffing
• bad-mouthing
• scorning
• scourging
• lacing (into)
• dissing
• vituperating
• reprehending
• putting down

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• approving
• endorsing
• sanctioning
• praising
• extolling
• lauding

2

as in speaking

to give a formal often extended talk on a subject

a physician who has lectured before countless audiences on the importance of diet and exercise in avoiding heart disease

Synonyms & Similar Words

• speaking
• talking
• haranguing
• discoursing
• expatiating
• orating
• declaiming
• descanting
• holding forth
• pontificating
• taking the floor
• expounding
• sermonizing
• soliloquizing
• reciting
• mouthing
• spouting
• filibustering
• disserting

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of lecturing

The bald guy lecturing me on how to get the money looked real enough, but the question of his true being kept rattling around my increasingly paranoid mind. — Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2026

Especially for him in the same interview to be lecturing my party on democracy and norms. — NBC news, 6 Sep. 2026

Approaching hesitant individuals Health experts said that addressing vaccine-hesitant people starts with listening rather than lecturing. — Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 21 Aug. 2026

Today, young people are increasingly frustrated with the hypocrisy of politicians lecturing them about the virtues of voting while in practice facilitating disengagement. — David Neil, New York Daily News, 15 Aug. 2026

Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon criticized Spain for lecturing Israel on security while struggling to control its own border. — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 31 July 2026

Fauci stepped down from his NIAID post at the end of 2022 and segued to a lecturing job at Georgetown. — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 27 July 2026

He was internationally known as an expert on the work of William Faulkner, teaching and lecturing around the world on the Nobel Prize winner. — Rebecca McCarthy, AJC.com, 13 July 2026

The film begins with a montage of young Roma women, each shot as though for a studio portrait, impassively absorbing an offscreen voice lecturing them about family planning. — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 11 July 2026