How To Use Excoriate In A Sentence
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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
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It is completely illogical to assume that being ashamed and having your school "excoriate" you will be motivational in any way.
The Reality Check
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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
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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
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The President excoriated the Western press for their biased views.
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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.
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People with this condition have a rash, pruritis, and excoriated crythematous skin in body folds, axillae, and groin.
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In fact, the Commission excoriated you for failing to record where your million came from and where it went.
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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
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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
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She was attracted to communalism, practiced homeopathy and diet reform, critiqued unfair labor practices, and excoriated men for their treatment of women.
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John Heartfield made bitter photomontages that excoriated the Nazis, for example, turning one into a ‘peaceable predatory fish.’
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Perhaps I’m missing some, but I think the one area where Matt has not been sufficiently excoriated is the relative danger marijuana.
Matthew Yglesias » Marijuana Legalization as a Revenue Enhancer
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Rarely, patients excoriate their skin in response to delusional ideation; in such cases, the appropriate diagnosis would be psychosis.
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She was excoriated and shunned, even within her own party.
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Once banned, often excoriated, still dauntingly difficult, Ulysses has become the canonical twentieth-century novel.
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Not for the first time, he excoriated his team: ‘That was poor, very poor.’
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No body-pile or pecten ever grows upon the excoriated part which preserves through life a livid ashen hue.
Arabian nights. English
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So perhaps the best advice for those who want to justify this or claim that others are being too militant and yes, some are likely being too pushy and thus come across as being little more than mirror images of those they want to excoriate is to just stop settling and just continue exploring.
I'm Perfectly Happy with My Reading Habits, Even If You Aren't
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Lincoln did it when, as a congressman from Illinois, he excoriated President Polk for his war in Mexico.
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The deadly smog would excoriate their nostrils and claw at their lungs and blacken their blood.
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Frank then excoriated a woman who asked a question while holding up a picture of President Obama defaced to look like Hitler:
Mjh's blog — 2009 — August
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They won't tell us who it is lest that person be "excoriated" so much they might ... jump from a top floor NYT building window!
The Radio Patriot
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It was a school of artistic expression that “vividly depicted and excoriated the corruption, frantic pleasure seeking and general demoralisation of Germany following its defeat in the war and the ineffectual Weimar Republic which governed until the arrival in power of the Nazi Party in 1933.”
Book Review: Wolf Among Wolves by Hans Fallada « A Progressive on the Prairie
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It was a school of artistic expression that “vividly depicted and excoriated the corruption, frantic pleasure seeking and general demoralisation [5] of Germany following its defeat in the war and the ineffectual Weimar Republic which governed until the arrival in power of the Nazi Party in 1933.”
A Progressive on the Prairie » Book Review: Wolf Among Wolves by Hans Fallada » Print
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He publicly excoriated the film director Zhang Yimou (Raise the Red Lantern, House of Flying Daggers) and the artist Cai Guo Qiang (the man whose firework dragon failed to ignite on the Thames at the millennium) for creating the opening ceremony, which he termed "a visual crap-pile of phony affection and hypocritical unctuousness . . . an encyclopedia of spiritual subjugation".
Ai Weiwei: the dissident artist
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The deadly smog would excoriate their nostrils and claw at their lungs and blacken their blood.
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I do not begrudge him is wealth (except he is known as a piker to boot); I excoriate the both of them for their two-faced-ness.
GraniteGrok
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He would then wait outside the front door to excoriate the opponents, even the poor guy loading the kit hampers on to the team bus.
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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
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One letter writer to the newspaper excoriated those people for complaining about not being able to get their vehicles out of the lot.
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The company was excoriated for its decision in the tendentious documentary "Who Killed the Electric Car?
Charging Ahead
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That's why the solution to substandard performance is always to excoriate, punish and shame the child.
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A few days later the Prime Minister was excoriated in the press for being, principally, a performer - and one who admires performers.
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The major difference is that poor little Johnny is excoriated for appalling behaviour and Bob is elevated to sainthood status.
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Echoing Israeli and Saudi moderates, he excoriated Hamas for "adventurism" that brought on the massacre of Gazans.
Palestine Chronicle - Headlines
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In _Finding Darwin's God_ he writes: "Before [Darwinian] evolution is excoriated for failing to explain the evolution of the flagellum, I'd request that the scientific community at least be allowed to figure out how its various parts work.
Behe and Gene discuss the Evolution of the Flagellum
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It is characterized by pruritic, of ten excoriated papules and nodules on the extensor surfaces of the legs and upper arms.
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But I suspect most pro-life people would willingly swap the lives of the babies for the insensitivity: feel free to excoriate us but don't sign the executive order at all.
Well, it's been a quiet week here at The Inn. . . .
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I find it rather funny that you racists know they are catholic but excoriate them as godless heathens anyways.
Think Progress » Arizona militia recruiting veterans with ‘kill records’ to patrol border.
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His palms were excoriated by the hard labor of shoveling.
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Black celebrities get excoriated for the same things that white celebrities get forgiven for.
Think Progress » Fifty-five years after Brown v. Board, Mississippi county schools ordered to stop school segregation.
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At the 1936 Democratic Party convention, FDR combatively excoriated "the privileged princes" of a new "economic tyranny.
Obama's Old-Time Re-Election Strategy
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No writer has excoriated the thirst for fame with more vigor in recent years - and yet here we have an actor (whom you lovingly pimped years ago in the magazine) blurbing your book.
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excoriate" the UN's peacekeeping mission in Congo.
The Economist: Correspondent's diary
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Esprit de l'escalier it may've been, but I found myself, days later, wondering why exactly it was that we should feel at all shamefaced about our singular collective ability to guy, to poke fun, to take the piss and otherwise generally excoriate.
Rude Britannia: British Comic Art, at Tate Britain
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Mucopurulent otorrhea and excoriated skin may also be present.
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The Boston Globe excoriated the first American exhibition, calling it a hotbed of Bolshevism.
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After all, the author you excoriate today might be the reviewer of your book tomorrow.
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His palms were excoriated by the hard labor of shoveling.
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The pathognomonic sign is the burrow - a short, wavy, grey line that is often missed if the skin is eczematised, excoriated, or impetiginised.
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A much-experienced newspaper colleague excoriated me as grossly unfair, if not libellous.
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Speaking to reporters after McGinn’s press briefing, council president Richard Conlin excoriated the mayor for “grandstanding” on the tunnel and said he believed the council would vote again to uphold their agreement.
McGinn Says He’ll Veto Tunnel Agreement; Council President Says Mayor is “Grandstanding” « PubliCola
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After a long diatribe, Noah excoriated me: ‘How can you bring such a phony to speak to your class?’
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There was some tea-bagger there who monopolized his time, rudely talked over him, and as his piece de resistance, excoriated Bennet for not having the underpants bomber declared an enemy combatant.
Think Progress » Using Double Standard, Conservatives Absolve Bush For ‘Domestic Attacks’ On His Watch
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Esprit de l'escalier it may've been, but I found myself, days later, wondering why exactly it was that we should feel at all shamefaced about our singular collective ability to guy, to poke fun, to take the piss and otherwise generally excoriate.
Rude Britannia: British Comic Art, at Tate Britain
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an editorial that excoriated the administration for its inaction.
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I am so mellow now in my dotage that no-one bothers to write in to excoriate me any more.
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What the ‘hero’ discovers is that everyone recites the same self-critical, damaging internal monologue in which they excoriate themselves for their inadequacies.
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What entertains me even more are comments like Will's above, that excoriate people for having a mixed or nuanced opinion of a film.
Avatar: The Good and The Bad
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We excoriate President Obama because we expect more from him.
NRCC targets Obama for saying Cambridge cop 'acted stupidly'
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At best we will be howled down, written about, excoriated and condemned.
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If all the clowns who excoriate Keynes just because some ignorant dogmatist told them to, would actually go read the General Theory (which is exceptionally lucidly written), perhaps they might begin to understand why.
Matthew Yglesias » “Taking Money From One Place and Giving it To Another Place”
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Throughout his career he had excoriated Walter Scott (even holding him almost single-handedly responsible for the Civil War), but now he was in the same boat as his bête noire.
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To criticize severely and devastatingly; excoriate.
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The local radio talk show excoriated him as a fiend; the daily paper denounced a magistrate for providing him bail.
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Should we publicly excoriate him, or even mildly condemn him and call for an apology on these ‘slippery slope’ grounds?
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During the 2000 election season, the former veep was excoriated for supposedly claiming to have invented the Internet.
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There are responsibilities to be avoided, party menus to plan, businessmen to excoriate - which leaves precious little time for golf, FYI.
Greetings from May 08, 2009. | RedState
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I had often used and seen used, the shell of the gourd for a ladle, or scoup dish, and I took a gourd that was green, and excoriated a part, took out the seeds, &c., and without any further cleansing, I filled it with milk from the cow, and then hid it in the chaff pen.
Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave, Brought Down to the Present Time
