Sentence examples for excoriated from inspiring English sources
The word "excoriated" is correct and well-written in English
It is typically used to describe the act of criticizing someone or something very harshly. Example: "The critic excoriated the film for its lack of originality and poor acting." Alternatives include "berated" or "scolded."
Land owners were excoriated, the House of Lords demonised and his more timid colleagues brushed aside.
Well acquainted with the president due to three years leading his security detail, the president chose Clancy in October to quickly restore calm and order to an agency that had been repeatedly excoriated by Congress.
He excoriated generalisations and what he called "factoids" (eg that building the Tudor navy destroyed our oakwoods) in elegant English that had its roots in the precision of Gilbert White and the robustness of William Cobbett.
China and other countries have long excoriated Japan for the way its textbooks whitewash the country's history, in particular glossing over Japanese war crimes.
YESTERDAY the National Commission on the Deepwater Horizon spill released a chapter of its forthcoming report in which it excoriated BP, Halliburton and Transocean for failures of management that directly led to the blowout.
Increasingly America is turning a blind eye to measures elsewhere that it once would have excoriated.
Tom Donohue, the boss of the powerful US Chamber of Commerce, this week excoriated the "inexcusable and unethical behaviour" of some of his kind.
It has underpinned its friendships with other regimes excoriated in the West: pre-division Sudan, for example, or Myanmar's junta before it donned civilian clothing and gave charm a chance.
He has excoriated New York's famously sullen cab-drivers, and wants all New Yorkers to be nicer to each other.
Mr Straw opposes these things, too, but is praised for his conviction, not excoriated for his "tribalism" as John Prescott is.
"The Boat" has been duly excoriated by critics and "The Damned" mostly admired.
