Excoriated

Perhaps I’m missing some, but I think the one area where Matt has not been sufficiently excoriated is the relative danger marijuana. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Speaking to reporters after McGinn’s press briefing, council president Richard Conlin excoriated the mayor for “grandstanding” on the tunnel and said he believed the council would vote again to uphold their agreement. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They won't tell us who it is lest that person be "excoriated" so much they might ... jump from a top floor NYT building window! ❋ Unknown (2009)

While they've excoriated the mandate - and argued again and again that it violates the constitutional rights of every American - they've embraced a mandate in their Medicare privatization scheme, which the Republicans in the House voted for last month as part of their 2012 budget. ❋ Ethan Rome (2011)

In his 1908 book, "The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche," Mencken excoriated the way that American mass society trampled on the possibility of unadjusted heroes. ❋ Thomas Meaney (2011)

He publicly excoriated the film director Zhang Yimou (Raise the Red Lantern, House of Flying Daggers) and the artist Cai Guo Qiang (the man whose firework dragon failed to ignite on the Thames at the millennium) for creating the opening ceremony, which he termed "a visual crap-pile of phony affection and hypocritical unctuousness . . . an encyclopedia of spiritual subjugation". ❋ Unknown (2011)

Thus for example ID is excoriated for not being scientific in the newer sense, particularly since it cannot specify and test the designer's mechanism for action. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Obama and Reid are being excoriated on their left for giving away too much in spending cuts in the deal, and Mr. Boehner is being warned on his right that conservatives won't settle so easily on a deal to raise the debt limit. ❋ Gerald F. Seib (2011)

In American political discourse, politicians are criticized, caricatured, excoriated, pilloried, and made to look foolish. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In _Finding Darwin's God_ he writes: "Before [Darwinian] evolution is excoriated for failing to explain the evolution of the flagellum, I'd request that the scientific community at least be allowed to figure out how its various parts work." ❋ Unknown (2009)

Then-judge Thomas was excoriated by then-Senator Joe Biden for having said nice things about Richard Epstein — as Biden brandished a copy of Takings — how could Lithwick think Epstein would be a “legitimate” candidate for the Court? ❋ Unknown (2010)

For over a century now, secretarial work has been extolled as a wonderful career opportunity for women--and excoriated as dead-end busy work. ❋ Unknown (2011)

There was some tea-bagger there who monopolized his time, rudely talked over him, and as his piece de resistance, excoriated Bennet for not having the underpants bomber declared an enemy combatant. ❋ Unknown (2010)

To almost no applause, he excoriated Republicans who rejected this month's debt-ceiling deal, as have Mrs. Bachmann and Mr. Romney. ❋ Neil King Jr. (2011)

The company was excoriated for its decision in the tendentious documentary "Who Killed the Electric Car?" ❋ Ronald Bailey (2011)

Frank then excoriated a woman who asked a question while holding up a picture of President Obama defaced to look like Hitler: ❋ Unknown (2009)

The oil on the surface (and sub surface) is a different matter, and the administration is rightly excoriated for it lousy response. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Black celebrities get excoriated for the same things that white celebrities get forgiven for. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Another interesting note – First Solar makes a pre-tax margin around 33% of sales, which is over 6x larger than health insurance companies make (and are excoriated for). ❋ Unknown (2010)