Example sentences for: excoriated

How can you use “excoriated” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It ill behooves me, excoriated recently as enamored of the “cheap larf,” to criticize Safire's arch puns, which permeate—“enliven” is probably the word his editor would use—his articles, but I find some kinds of humor unsuitable for reading, however they might evoke a chuckle when uttered viva voce . A handful of examples, from the book at hand:

  • In 1859, the Edinburgh Review excoriated another party, who are [sic] striving to debase the language by introducing the verb to wire instead of the word hitherto used, to telegraph.

  • What we seem to be living through right now is a strange time in which the market is simultaneously being excoriated as overvalued and hysterical and being described as being in a slump that forebodes bad things ahead.

  • In an editorial which both agreed with Prince Edward's comments and excoriated him for making them.

  • The behavior he is now being excoriated for was not Orwellian, in the sense of 1984 's world of inverted truth--but Orwell-like, meaning that it was in keeping with a career based on political courage and intellectual integrity.


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