an instrument wholly fitted to its excoriating purpose

the novelist's radical, "excoriating purpose"

we still live in a world like the one Frankfurt School excoriated

Yet, if it excoriated the bland assumptions of a Sir Walter Raleigh on one level, it was also in complicity with them on another

Marx's excoriating analysis of the bourgeois response to the Paris Commune

The Times, in turn, chose this print headline to sum up Trump’s address after the Dayton and El Paso shootings: “Trump Urges Unity vs. Racism.” It was properly excoriated

Conservative readers excoriated what the radicals most liked

unlike the poorer stories, which are lovingly excoriated

The dreary moral-panic literature excoriating ‘the shallows’ and the ‘post-truth’ society must be missing a vital truth about their subject

It is certainly not sufficient grounds to turn the knife on ourselves and excoriate the South Asian American community writ large for collaboration with the oppressor’s portrayals

There is something excoriating about sitting in the dark next to someone you love, watching a movie about love, knowing both stories are going to end badly.