excoriate

How To Use excoriate In A Sentence

• He excoriates the McSweeney's crowd and "the ridiculous dithering of John Barth ... [and] the reductive cardboard constructions of Donald Barthelme," and would excise from the modern canon "nearly all of Gaddis, Pynchon, DeLillo," and — while he's at it — "the diarrheic flow of words that is Ulysses ... the incomprehensible ramblings of late Faulkner and the sterile inventions of late Nabokov. New & Noteworthy
• It is completely illogical to assume that being ashamed and having your school "excoriate" you will be motivational in any way. The Reality Check
• Thus for example ID is excoriated for not being scientific in the newer sense, particularly since it cannot specify and test the designer's mechanism for action. Approaches Determine Outcomes
• Before fleeing East Germany, he took care to excoriate himself from Stasi records and to plunder as many top secret files as he could. CHAMELEON
• The President excoriated the Western press for their biased views.
• Most people inherently recognise what they call bright or fresh red bleeding, and tend to attribute that to a local cause such as a haemorrhoid or an anal fissure, or even just some excoriated itchy skin.
• People with this condition have a rash, pruritis, and excoriated crythematous skin in body folds, axillae, and groin.
• In fact, the Commission excoriated you for failing to record where your million came from and where it went.
• Before fleeing East Germany, he took care to excoriate himself from Stasi records and to plunder as many top secret files as he could. CHAMELEON
• You realize of course that from here on in the same flaccids you excoriate will now call you a liar as they lie about you, call you a coward as they hide behind their ridiculous pseudonyms, and traduce you as a neocon, a Zionist, a warmonger and an idiot? Archive 2009-03-01