Sentence example with the word 'excoriate'

excoriate

abrade, attack, blister, decorticate, fret, gall, pare, roast, scalp, scathe, scourge, skin alive, strip

Definition v. express strong disapproval of

Last update: July 21, 2015


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Media excoriated the government on its new economic policy.   [verb]

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This play does not excoriate hypocrisy: it flirts with sophistry to test our sympathies toward unexpected virtue.   [verb]

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She had been literally excoriated.   [verb]

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Crouching back, he eyed his adversary in silence, with eyes whose hatred seemed to excoriate.   [Please select]

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Just look at that, Jim," he added, turning up the hard sleeve of his oiled coat, and exposing a wrist which the feeble rays of the lantern showed to be badly excoriated and inflamed."   [Please select]

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For an hour he excoriated her, hated her, feared her, dissociating her from the vast army of womanhood, but congratulating himself upon having known her.   [Please select]

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