excoriate

“But Daddy I Love Him” is the album’s finest cut: a garment-rending folk-rock melodrama in which Swift seems to excoriate her audience for its disapproval of her and Healy’s affair.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2024

It’s easy to criticize the media for overemphasizing someone’s prison exposure, and easier still to excoriate prosecutors for sweetheart deals.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2023

Their bliss doesn’t last long, because that would get in the way of this skin-crawling film’s expedition to excoriate toxic masculinity, religious radicalism and class and racial entitlements.

From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2023

Contributing to a debate in parliament last month MP Sam George, a prominent critic of the project, quoted the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament to excoriate the government.

From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2023

“We need to take care of this. It’s too far gone. We have to excoriate the skin and replace your G-tube to purge the infection.”

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott

But while the show occasionally excoriates him, its fictionalized tale revels in his real-world achievements.

From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2024

These omissions feel particularly glaring in light of how Aly excoriates the scholars of the era for viewing the islanders as history-less primitives who simply “died out” after contact with the modern world.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2023

But Clegg, who started working for Harris in 2008, said there is a difference between a tough boss and one who excoriates staff.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 4, 2021

And Bill Clinton excoriates himself in a way not often seen.

From Salon ● Jan. 26, 2020

To persons who are not habituated to the composition it causes a strong giddiness, astringes and excoriates the tongue and fauces, and deadens for a time the faculty of taste.

From The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants by Marsden, William

Now, Warsh will find himself on the inside again, working with the people he’s excoriated.

From MarketWatch ● May 13, 2026

District Judge Nancy Brasel excoriated the government for policies and practices that “all but extinguish” a detainee’s right to counsel.

From Slate ● Feb. 17, 2026

Another judge separately excoriated Halligan for continuing to identify herself as U.S. attorney, despite the November ruling that found her appointment unlawful.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026

In case anyone missed the viral video that has made him something of a folk hero to many in D.C. and around the country, Dunn loudly excoriated a small group of U.S.

From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2025

A few scientists had challenged Meggers’s ideas; Roosevelt excoriated them from top to bottom.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

West, one of the grande dames of the movement, got her start at Seattle alt-weekly the Stranger and spent years excoriating fatphobia, online misogyny, and male entitlement for the ur-millennial-feminist site Jezebel.

From Slate ● Mar. 31, 2026

“Rebel English Academy” reprises the excoriating humor of that debut, but only erratically.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

On the basis of Everyday - an excoriating, paranoid track built around Death In Vegas's 1999 dance hit Dirge - the new material has been worth the wait.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2025

Paul McCartney was particularly incensed, excoriating the book as "The Muck You Rake" and famously burning his copy as wife Linda memorialized its destruction on film.

From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2024

Sarai uncovered her eyes and found Great Ellen restored to human form, the excoriating hawk gaze replaced by a piercing but compassionate human one.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor