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View definitions for excoriate

excoriate

verb as in scrape layers off

verb as in denounce, criticize

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Hence Trump’s cynical strategy to slip him into position through a recess appointment, which would insulate him from a full background investigation and an excoriating examination by Democrats.

Post columnist Dana Milbank excoriated the owner for the decision, which he said “gave the appearance of cowering before a wannabe dictator to protect Bezos’s business interests.”

“I think it’s time we put a felon in the White House. Trump 2024 baby,” he said in an Instagram video during which he excoriated what he sees as California’s soft-on-crime policies.

In a telephone interview Thursday, he excoriated the Israeli military for bombing roads linking Marjayoun to other areas in the south.

At a campaign rally in Wisconsin on Wednesday, an indignant Vance excoriated the media.

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

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