0 present participle of excoriate
1 to write or say that a play, book, political action, etc. is very bad:
Yet he never fails to register the passion that powers this sometimes frenzied, excoriating music.
Pervasive themes are familiar - nationalism, empire, and class - and the "land without music" trope proves irresistible to critics excoriating audiences for their failures of taste and appropriate enthusiasm.
