Dialogue words you could use instead of the word…

Except

Exhaustive

Apart from

Aside from

Balk

Ban

Banish

Bar

Barring

Beef

Bellyache

Besides

Bitch

Blackball

Blacklist

Bleat

Block

But

Carp

Caterwaul

Cavil

Cease

Censure

Challenge

Check off

Close doors to

Comb

Chrome

Comb out

Complain

Conflict

Count

Count out

Crab

Croak

Criticise

Dare

Debar

Defy

Demonstrate

Demur

Denounce

Deport

Deter

Discontinue

Dispute

Disobey

Disregard

Eliminate

Except for

Excepting

Exclude

Excluding

Exclusive of

Exile

Expel

Expostulate

Fight

Freeze out

Fuss

Gag

Gripe

Grizzle

Grouch

Grouse

Growl

Grumble

Grump

Halt

Hinder

Holler

If not

Impede

Keen

Kick

Lacking

Leave out

Maunder

Minus

Moan

Murmur

Mutter

Nag

Not for

Object

Obstruct

Omitting

Only

Ostracised

Other than

Oust

Outside

Outside of

Prevent

Prohibit

Protest

Quarrel

Rebel

Rejecting

Remonstrate

Remonstrate with

Repine

Rule out

Save

Saving

Scream

Short of

Shut out

Squabble

Squawk

Squeal

Stave off

Stick

Suspend

Take Exception

Take Issue

Throw out

Ward

Ward off

Wail

Weed

Weed out

Whimper

Whine

Whinge

With stand

With out

With the exception

Yammer

Yawp

Yowl