0 past simple and past participle of excoriate
1 to write or say that a play, book, political action, etc. is very bad:
From a rational-choice perspective, it is excoriated for enabling coalitions of special interests to prevail over general interests.
They both excoriated their contemporaries for their spiritual and cultural emptiness, and they both made enormous demands on life itself.
In traditional prescriptive teaching and in some manuals of grammar and style, the little verb get has been excoriated as a catch-all for lazy imprecise people.
Steiner himself is excoriated as unstable of mind and impediment of motive.
He excoriated the scheme, before announcing—somewhat curiously—that he intended to take no part in any ballot in his constituency that might result.
Even those tabloids most regularly excoriated in the best circles were by no means always condemned.
He and other churchmen, black and white, of all denominations who publicly criticise the government's policies are excoriated, defamed and often thrown into gaol.
We should have been excoriated for it.
