How to Use excoriate in a Sentence

excoriate

verb

• He was excoriated as a racist.
• The candidates have publicly excoriated each other throughout the campaign.
• Fans excoriated the team in the build-up to the tournament.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 19 June 2018
• The book excoriates Democrats, the press and critics of his father, according to the New York Times.
  — Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, azcentral, 4 Nov. 2019
• Wang was excoriated for her words by all of the PC forces in Canada.
  — John Fund, National Review, 22 Sep. 2019
• But Canady and Shields excoriated the deal, arguing that the city was still giving away the store.
  — Bill Turque, kansascity, 22 Mar. 2018
• But even before the vote took place, John Oliver was on the case, with a May 7 segment that excoriated Pai.
  — Mike Godwin, Slate Magazine, 23 May 2017
• A couple of digital outlets picked up the post and ran the replies, many of which excoriated the excess.
  — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 5 May 2024
• His great gesture was pardoning Richard Nixon, an act for which he was excoriated at the time and which cost him the 1976 election.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 29 July 2017
• Due to this tool’s narrow and thin edge and crescent shape design, the blade is extremely sharp and therefore cuts swiftly through the dirt to excoriate weeds.
  — Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 May 2024
• But in her view, Merrily is far from the bleak show business send-up that critics excoriated in 1981.
  — Marley Marius, Vogue, 21 Aug. 2023
• Tess, ahead of her time, writes him a letter excoriating him for his double standard.
  — Danielle McNally, Marie Claire, 4 Oct. 2019
• In his past races, Walker or his backers ran ads as early as the spring of the election year excoriating his opponent.
  — Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 June 2018
• Bolton has made the public case to go to war with both nations for years and has routinely excoriated their leadership.
  — W.j. Hennigan, Time, 23 Mar. 2018
• Not long after, the head of the Salem network dropped by to excoriate me in front of local management for my lack of enthusiasm for the president.
  — Krista Kafer, The Denver Post, 18 Nov. 2019
• Iraqi politicians and other figures also took to social media to excoriate Trump for the move.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2020
• Rand responded by excoriating him, his ex-wife Barbara, and the work that Branden had done to expand the reach of Objectivism.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 8 May 2018
• Regardless of how the Supreme Court rules, the justices will be excoriated by vast numbers of Americans.
  — WSJ, 9 Jan. 2024
• Kelce, who had a few beers along the parade route, took the mic on the steps of the art museum and proceeded to go on a five-minute rant excoriating everyone who ever doubted the Eagles.
  — Dan Gartland, SI.com, 8 Feb. 2018
• Then, two days later, Greeley let loose—not to revisit the killing or to meditate on the lessons of the hanging, but to excoriate the newspapers that had so avidly covered both.
  — James M. Lundberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Mar. 2020
• After Williams and Collins witnessed a flock of gay men offering advice to a man who’d been publicly excoriated for his attire by his wife, an idea was born.
  — Matthew Jacobs, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 June 2023
• Democrats have excoriated the president and his allies for their campaign against Col.
  — Andrew Restuccia, WSJ, 8 Feb. 2020
• Anderson does not excoriate the patriarchy, and in fact the First Lady has a fine and important job and seems to dominate her Husband.
  — Paul Di Filippo, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2020
• Henderson was not the sole convention speaker to excoriate Biden’s record on race.
  — Carly Ortiz-Lytle, Washington Examiner, 27 Aug. 2020
• Democrats excoriated Republicans on social media and the few who were present in the House at the time of the vote furiously protested the decision.
  — Dartunorro Clark, NBC News, 11 Sep. 2019
• That day, The Chronicle ran the second of an excoriating two-part series on the occupation.
  — Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, 29 Nov. 2019
• As a joke, D’aron and his three friends put the dots on their foreheads — and are promptly excoriated for being insensitive to Hindu students.
  — Brendan Kiley, The Seattle Times, 16 June 2017
• Paddy grinds it to a halt several times, excoriating Ant for not performing his part well enough.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 10 Sep. 2024
• His images were often abrasive, excoriating those Nast believed were in the wrong.
  — The Economist, 14 Jan. 2020
• And the defense’s only real witness was so defiant that the judge, after excoriating him, cleared the courtroom.
  — Maggie Haberman, New York Times, 20 May 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024