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skewered

verb as in spike

verb as in transfix

verb as in impale

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This razor-sharp novel skewers America’s workforce, explores ambition and race, and imagines a necessary new vision of the American dream.

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As with most things, the British comedy Absolutely Fabulous skewered the absurdity years before its current ubiquity.

Back in November, SNL shrewdly skewered its diversity problem with its Kerry Washington-hosted outing.

He skewered the Bush administration for failing to build adequate power plants in the first year after the fall of the regime.

As for Joe Kaufman, the FrontPage writer who attacked Aboushi, he was skewered last year for his Islamophobia on the Daily Show.

Elected officials on both sides of the river skewered him; Cuomo kept silent.

He wouldn't be denied; went to work like a fellow meaning to be skewered, if he couldn't do the trick: and he tried it.

And with his pieces of meat awkwardly skewered on his iron stick he tried to poke under the authorised kid and get at the fire.

Barely had it done so when it was skewered to the boards by the fork of Captain Tollward.

A couple of pieces of bear meat were skewered upon the rod, and had been frizzling there for the past quarter of an hour.

They were brought round skewered on a long spit, held by a page for the guest to help herself.

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On this page you'll find 46 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to skewered, such as: fasten, impale, lance, nail, pin, and prick.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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