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excoriation
noun as in execration
Example Sentences
“I’m going to take my time,” Jeffries said before launching into a marathon excoriation of the legislation, its Medicaid cuts and its Republican backers.
“I didn’t want to talk about politics — I know when I talk about it, that’s the headline,” he says right before launching into a full-throated excoriation of Trump.
Clooney’s public excoriation proved to be a tipping point, creating a public relations disaster for the Biden campaign, said a confidant close to a senior Democratic leader who was not authorized to speak publicly.
There is an excoriation of the writing of Tom Wolfe.
By contrast, this latest book feels like an excoriation of his adopted homeland, a lament about the direction it took during the Trump administration and a cautionary tale about where it could end up.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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