criticize severely

The absence of a comment was his compliment; he never hesitated to criticize severely if a job were not done as well as he believed it could be done.

Again, the queen began to criticize severely the shipment of Indians from the new-found lands to Spain.

He then proceeded to analyze and comment on it at great length, and to criticize severely the method and tone of my Sermons generally.

One morning she took up a prayer book that was lying upon the table and began to criticize severely the bad taste of the prayers.