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单词 excoriate
释义
excoriate
verb[T]
formal
uk
/ekˈskɔː.ri.eɪt/us
/ekˈskɔːr.i.eɪt/
to write or say that aplay,book,politicalaction, etc. is verybad:
严厉指责，痛斥（戏剧、书、政治行为等）
Hislatestnovelreceivedexcoriatingreviews.他的最新小说受到了严厉的批评。
Thepresidentexcoriated theWesternpressfortheirbiasedviews.这位总统痛斥西方新闻界充满偏见的观点。
Synonyms
attack(CRITICIZE)
castigateformal
censureformal
chastise(CRITICIZE)formal
condemn
criticize
damn(BLAME)
decryformal
denounce(CRITICIZE)
railformal
revileformal
slaminformal
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
to show disapproval of someone or something
  • criticizeHe criticized the government's handling of the crisis.
  • attackShe wrote an article attacking the judge and the way the trial had been conducted.
  • condemnShe was condemned for her comments about the candidate.
  • denounceThe government's economic policy has been denounced on all sides.
  • come under fireThe government programme has come under fire for mismanaging funds.
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Disapproving & criticizing
  • anathematize
  • animadversion
  • aspersion
  • assail
  • aw
  • backbite
  • criticism
  • dim
  • fault
  • niggle
  • nitpick
  • nitpicking
  • opprobrious
  • peanut gallery
  • people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stonesidiom
  • personalization
  • personalize
  • philippic
  • sarky
  • tear
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(Definition ofexcoriatefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofexcoriate

excoriate
From a rational-choice perspective, it is excoriated for enabling coalitions of special interests to prevail over general interests.
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They both excoriated their contemporaries for their spiritual and cultural emptiness, and they both made enormous demands on life itself.
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Yet he never fails to register the passion that powers this sometimes frenzied, excoriating music.
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In the first chapter the author excoriates myths within gerontology - such as the ' retirement trauma ' that scholars often contend contributes to misery in late life.
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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.
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Adams himself excoriates the way classical music is 'oversold' in its marketing.
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Not content with the collapse of the left opposition in the 1990s, critics would seize the opportunity toexcoriatethe limits and 'emotionalism' that they had left behind.
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We know that all persons infested with lice are addicted to scratching themselves, whereby theyexcoriatetheir skin and frequently crush the lice upon their bodies.
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Craig often excoriates conventionalism in others while seeming to embrace it here.
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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.
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Steiner himself is excoriated as unstable of mind and impediment of motive.
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He excoriated the scheme, before announcing—somewhat curiously—that he intended to take no part in any ballot in his constituency that might result.
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Even those tabloids most regularly excoriated in the best circles were by no means always condemned.
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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.
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We should have been excoriated for it.
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