When it comes to various characters in the series telling Columbo off, I cannot think of anybody that does it more frequently or more directly than Mrs. Peck. From the moment they met. She was constantly on his tail.

Do you have any favorite tell off lines that characters might have let our favorite Detective know how it is? But throughout the episode Double Shock Mrs. Peck does it many times

The little girl in “Etude in Black” comes to kind - she’s extremely snippy with Columbo on each of their encounters.

Season 2 was like the year of people being mean to Columbo! Jarvis and Cathy Goodland let him have it that season, too.

I've always enjoyed Lloyd Bochner as Mazoor Berozski in "Most Dangerous Match" as he literally pushes Columbo around while yelling at him, "Tell me something, why are you here? You are homicide detective. Nobody has died here. So why don't you go home? Go home, what do you care about garlic? About shirts?" Cracks me up every time.

In Columbo Goes to College Jordan Rowe consistently lets Columbo have it. He says at one point "it's obvious you don't know which end is up. That's not an insult its a statement of fact"

Then later on he very sternly reminds Columbo that this is the 2nd time we ve met.

Oh and Mrs Rowe too indirectly tells Columbo off. By saying that the police department assigned this "wrinkled little dumbbell" to find Professor rusks killer.

Audrey also SCARES him with that "My mind or my body?" line. Even though no one hears it, he looks practically horrified by that question.

I know I'm biased about this character, but Leslie Williams has a great one -

"You know, you're actually likeable in a shabby sort of way."

Although that he did not tell him off per say, Paul Galesko certainly was very vocal about a lot of things in his murder case.

The one he gives the most reason to blow up at him might be Beth Chadwick, since of course she's already been cleared. Instead, she's pretty restrained. (Maybe it's that "classiness" that he mentions in the final scene.)