excoriate

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“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

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

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

From Slate • Dec. 29, 2020

And as much as he likes to excoriate the “fake news,” he is drawn irresistibly to the spotlight.

From New York Times • Sep. 10, 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