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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.