[
US
/ɛkˈskɔɹiˌeɪʃən/
]
NOUN
- an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off
- severe censure
How To Use excoriation In A Sentence
- Bush 43 was on the receiving end of eight years of lies, insults, and verbal excoriation delivered by the MSM. President Obama concedes loss of House in 2010. | RedState
- Every time he rose to, or even approached, the heights of success and public esteem, he was suddenly plunged down into the depths of media excoriation.
- Nevertheless, all major networks signed on to the war effort with embarrassingly little resistance, the First Amendment taking second place to their fear of public excoriation by the President.
- In the next issue of my magazine, National Review, I published a 5,000-word excoriation of Welch: Goldwater, the John Birch Society and Me
- Depression, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder are the psychiatric diagnoses most commonly associated with patients who have neurotic excoriations.
- “I have had several letters,” he wrote to Professor Edwin Mims, of Trinity College, North Carolina, “about an 'excoriation' (Great Heavens! The Life and Letters of Walter H Page
- Excoriations and pyoderma also may be present.
- Orwell could hit hard and strike deep - recall only his excoriation of the Stalinists who went to ‘help’ in the Spanish Civil War.
- Nichol launched into a passionate excoriation of the Republican social agenda that targets: gays; women; students; middle class families; teachers; professors and Medicaid recipients while, "denying thousands of others the right to vote. Michael Carmichael: Battleground North Carolina: Democratic Women Fired Up!
- Babies are frequently subject to rashes, intertrigo, excoriations, eczema, and other skin affections. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies