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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
excoriate .
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Examples
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New York's "most powerful health care interests are mounting a multimillion-dollar media campaign" beginning Monday that "excoriates" Gov.
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Hannity praises House GOP budget blueprint, claims media "excoriates" it because "they want the 2,000 pages"
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He hamfistedly excoriates the Department of Education for forcing students "to learn Eskimo poetry" and mocks the idea of an "unfunded mandate" -- suggesting it's "a big word."
Bob Cesca: Tea Party Republican Governors Embrace Socialism Bob Cesca 2011
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The memo excoriates the high command for deploying the wrong units for the land battle.
Inside a Flawed Spy Machine as Gadhafi's Rule Crumbled Charles Levinson 2011
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He hamfistedly excoriates the Department of Education for forcing students "to learn Eskimo poetry" and mocks the idea of an "unfunded mandate" -- suggesting it's "a big word."
Bob Cesca: Tea Party Republican Governors Embrace Socialism Bob Cesca 2011
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•Cheney excoriates Colin Powell for standing by silently, knowing that his deputy Richard Armitage was responsible for leaking Valerie Plame's identity to the press
Dorian de Wind: In My Time, a New Book by the One-Word Man Dorian de Wind 2011
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Mr. Abrams particularly excoriates WikiLeaks for publication of cables covering Zimbabwe, Mexico and Ecuador.
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Even as he excoriates the president (who, it bears repeating, continues to be praised by Iranian human rights activists for his prudence) for being “afraid to take sides,” Krauthammer himself has taken a side: The side of pure, naked American interest and power, brutally defined and unapologetically exercised.
Wonk Room » Krauthammer Dreams Of A ‘Moderate’ Iran Dictatorship 2009
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Your editorial excoriates President Obama for caving in to politics with his decision to postpone the Keystone XL pipeline decision.
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•Cheney excoriates Colin Powell for standing by silently, knowing that his deputy Richard Armitage was responsible for leaking Valerie Plame's identity to the press
Dorian de Wind: In My Time, a New Book by the One-Word Man Dorian de Wind 2011
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