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excoriatingly

excoriatingly adverb: so as to excoriate.

Adverb

excoriatingly (comparative more excoriatingly, superlative most excoriatingly)

  1. So as to excoriate.
    • Released in Britain last fall, “The Believers” prompted a reviewer to write in The Guardian that Audrey is “a hilarious, foul-mouthed harridan: part monster, part inspiring law unto herself, her approach so excoriatingly direct that the reader waits in wincing glee for her next spitting and...2009 February 26, Patricia Cohen, “Not Much Sympathy for Zoë Heller’s Characters, but a Little Understanding”, in New York Times

Forms of excoriatingly

comparativemore excoriatingly
superlativemost excoriatingly

Origin of excoriatingly

From excoriating + -ly.

Questions about excoriatingly

What does excoriatingly mean?
Excoriatingly means so as to excoriate.
What part of speech is excoriatingly?
Excoriatingly is an adverb.

Words near excoriatingly in the dictionary

  1. excoriate
  2. excoriated
  3. excoriates
  4. excoriateth
  5. excoriating
  6. excoriatingly
  7. excoriation
  8. excoriation disorder
  9. excoriations
  10. excoriator
  11. excoriators

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