excoriate

Example Sentences

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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

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

Jackson hasn’t come here to excoriate the 1 percent, yet I found myself wondering how this novel might look through Berta’s lens.

From Washington Post • Mar. 7, 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