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How to use excoriate in a sentence

10 example sentences · verb, adjective

Excoriate means to remove the skin and/or fur of, to flay, to skin. Example: “The teacher continued to excoriate the student after his academic issues.”

Examples of excoriate by meaning

verbTo strongly condemn or criticize.

  • The teacher continued to excoriate the student after his academic issues.
  • Madeleina di Farja had described Ori, and Cutter had envisaged an angry, frantic, pugnacious boy eager to fight, excoriating his comrades for supposed quiescence.2004, China Miéville, Iron Council, Trade paperback edition, published 2005, →ISBN, page 464
  • Green, a former city public advocate and candidate for mayor in 2001, ran ads excoriating Mr.2006 September 13, Patrick Healy, “Spitzer and Clinton Win in N.Y. Primary”, in New York Times

More sentences with excoriate

  • In his j’accuse, Mattis excoriates the president for setting Americans against one another.2020 June 3, Jeffrey Goldberg, “James Mattis Denounces President Trump”, in The Atlantic. From the entry j'accuse
  • Marston poses as the Timonist malcontent satirist ready to excoriate the world for its follies.1988, Maurice Charney, Hamlet's fictions. From the entry Timonist
  • The tabloids branded him James Hewitt forevermore as the “love rat,” and Pasternak was excoriated for peddling mawkish fantasy.2022 April 5, Tina Brown, “How Princess Diana’s Dance With the Media Impacted William and Harry”, in Vanity Fair. From the entry mawkish
  • Bernice resembles the man-hating mothers excoriated by Strecker and Lathbury in their momist diatribe about the nation's moral decline, Their Mothers' Daughters.2011, Robert J. Corber, Cold War Femme: Lesbianism, National Identity, and Hollywood Cinema, page 84. From the entry momist
  • I have never heard her more ropable in my life; it is the only tongue-lashing I ever remember getting from her and it was excoriating.2009, Sean Dooley, Cooking with Baz, page 115. From the entry ropable
  • The changes come a year after a Sundance film, “This Film Is Not Yet Rated,” excoriated the rating system as a supersecret star chamber.2007 January 18, David M. Halbfinger, “Hollywood Rethinks Its Ratings Process”, in New York Times. From the entry supersecret
  • They excoriated some of the absurdities of suburban design such as the unwalkability of suburban neighborhoods and the increasing distances between schools, shopping areas, and housing.2007, Carl Abbott, “Planning Compact Cities”, in Urban America in the Modern Age: 1920 to the Present (The American History Series), 2nd…. From the entry unwalkability

Meaning of excoriate

  1. verb To remove the skin and/or fur of, to flay, to skin.
  2. verb To wear off the skin of; to chafe.
  3. verb To strongly condemn or criticize.

Full definition of excoriate

Questions about excoriate in a sentence

How do you use excoriate in a sentence?
Excoriate is used as a verb and adjective. For example: “The teacher continued to excoriate the student after his academic issues.”
What is a short sentence with excoriate?
“The teacher continued to excoriate the student after his academic issues.”
What does excoriate mean?
Excoriate means to remove the skin and/or fur of, to flay, to skin.

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