the novelist's radical, "excoriating purpose"

an instrument wholly fitted to its 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

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

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