excoriated

past tense of excoriate

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Recent Examples of excoriated How has Fawlty Towers, one of the most offbeat, provincial, inappropriate, and heavily excoriated shows of all time, remained popular for 50 years? Jonathan Margolis, Air Mail, 20 Sep. 2025 The Wall Street Journal editorial board excoriated Attorney General Pam Bondi for suggesting hate speech is not protected under the law in the wake of conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s death. Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 17 Sep. 2025 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 Caruso, the impresario behind The Grove and The Americana at Brand shopping centers, had excoriated the government’s response to the fire in a statement on Wednesday. Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for excoriated
Verb
  • On August 22, she was attacked while on a Charlotte light train in what police described as an unprovoked stabbing.
    Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Ruben Amorim’s men attacked with precision and purpose at Old Trafford.
    Carl Anka, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The decision by Aaron Turner, Kuminga’s agent, to go on a media tour in recent weeks while negotiating publicly in hopes of landing a better offer for Kuminga, irritated some with the organization, according to league sources.
    Nick Friedell, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • And the web designer from South Dakota certainly must have irritated her former final two ally Vince Panaro on her way out of the Big Brother house.
    Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • And one of them slammed my face into the subway grates and knocked my tooth out.
    Diane J. Cho, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Most recently, Hurricane Nicole slammed into Florida as a Category 1 in early November 2022 and Hurricane Zeta smashed into Louisiana as a Category 3 in late October 2020.
    Briana Waxman, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • That’s the itch that Winstead’s horror projects have scratched, from The Hand That Rocks the Cradle back to 2006’s Final Destination 3 and 2016’s 10 Cloverfield Lane.
    Jack Smart, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Fabrics have scratched surfaces, mimicking digital glitches.
    Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The Royal Dutch Medical Association scolded the psychiatrists, and prosecutors declined to act.
    Asra Q. Nomani, FOXNews.com, 19 Oct. 2025
  • In 2013, then-President Barack Obama penned a thank-you letter to federal employees for their service and scolded Congress for failing to approve a spending plan, without placing blame.
    NPR, NPR, 15 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The rapper also expressed frustration towards those who criticized her appearance at a rally Kamala Harris hosted in Milwaukee ahead of the 2024 election, stating that the wrong parts of her speech went viral.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Even some of his Republican allies have criticized it.
    John Cassidy, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025

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