excoriated

past tense of excoriate

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of excoriated Once again, Miller called Dudek and excoriated him. Eli Hager, ProPublica, 8 Sep. 2025 Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg excoriated Trump during an Iowa town hall hosted by the liberal group VoteVets Action Fund. Mabinty Quarshie, The Washington Examiner, 28 Aug. 2025 Cleaver and other Kansas City lawmakers have excoriated the effort, framing it as a brazen and undemocratic power grab that would dampen the voting power of Kansas City and its nearby suburbs. Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 22 Aug. 2025 Online, fans excoriated the bright lights and banality of the revamp so aggressively that the company’s chief marketing officer paid the Reddit forum a visit to quell concerns. Katherine Laidlaw, HubSpot, 8 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for excoriated
Verb
  • Tonges, who before Sunday’s game had never caught a regular-season pass, attacked the ball and gave San Francisco the lead.
    Michael-Shawn Dugar, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The occurrences grew more aggressive over time, with the Smurls' 75-pound German shepherd getting slammed into a wall and Jack getting attacked while praying.
    Jessica Sager, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In fact, the aliens take a back seat to the human interactions, which irritated some viewers eager to see actual aliens in a show about an extraterrestrial invasion.
    Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 5 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • An evening bike ride on a rural road turned fatal in a most unusual way, when the cyclist slammed into a deer in the dark, according to the North Carolina Highway Patrol.
    Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Supporters of Mangione have slammed Shein for using his likeness while his critics have also described the photo as a new low.
    Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • But over time, even the most beautiful planks can start to look dull, dry, or scratched, especially in high-traffic areas.
    Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Jenna Ortega's Wednesday has only scratched the surface of her family's dark history.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Family matriarch Donna Adelson was scolded by a judge Thursday for weeping in the courtroom after being convicted of orchestrating a 2014 murder-for-hire plot of her former son-in-law, a prominent Florida State University law professor.
    Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Lox's reaction to being scolded.
    Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Many members of the media criticized the team's performance as did supporters, who were not impressed with the Americans, particularly in the first half, when the Koreans controlled the game and scored both goals.
    Michael Lewis, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • In a phone interview, both sharply criticized the map and its impact on Kansas City’s representation in Congress.
    Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 9 Sep. 2025

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“Excoriated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/excoriated. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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