excoriate

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

In one session, Mr. Trump turned to Mr. Christie and began to excoriate him for recommending Christopher Wray for F.B.I. director.

From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2021

On the one hand, they excoriate Black folk, especially young people, when they opt out of the political process by not voting or joining conventional avenues for participation.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 16, 2021

And which ones did you excoriate or dismiss, only to find yourself still thinking about them days later?

From Slate ● Dec. 29, 2020

“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 the outpouring of sympathy from the British people, including the “political class” Mr. Swaim excoriates, was immediate and sympathetic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

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

Why does a writer who, on one page, excoriates Joseph Conrad for cliché, for the sin of “in the twinkling of an eye,” so blandly deploy “bright-eyed and bushy-tailed” — and worse?

From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2020

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 William Marsden

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

From MarketWatch ● May 13, 2026

On social media and elsewhere, he has excoriated Bass over her handling of the disaster and the subsequent recovery.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 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

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

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Arday, who was appointed in a blaze of publicity in 2023 as the youngest-ever black professor to Cambridge University, was found dead on Friday, aged 41, after weeks of excoriating media reports.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

While excoriating the loss of his visa, López Beltrán also painted a dystopian picture of present-day life north of the border.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

That is what makes Hawaiʻi Supreme Court Justice Todd Eddins’ excoriating assessment of the term so valuable.

From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

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