Excoriating

Many radical liberals were just as bad in excoriating Bush for things he didn't deserve (though he deserved quite a bit, IMO). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Very nice screed, although I only got about 1/2 way before m.e.g.o. But I think you went the wrong direction in excoriating the anonymous poster. ❋ Hal Duncan (2005)

More fundamentally, the Court is already politicized: an article recently published in Britain lambasted the Supreme Court for "providing immunity to ... corporate law breakers," excoriating "the zealots ... led principally by Justice Scalia." ❋ Unknown (2009)

But I consider him one of the best rural strategists in our party -- we can probably learn a lot from each other's strengths and weaknesses. you call that "excoriating"? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Conservative media falsely accuse Obama of "excoriating" Petraeus ❋ Unknown (2010)

Challenging the Court is hardly daring in comparison. the Court is already politicized: an article recently published in Britain lambasted the Supreme Court for "providing immunity to ... corporate law breakers," excoriating "the zealots ... led principally by Justice Scalia." ❋ Shahid Buttar (2009)

Regarding Paul Moreno's "Obama's Re-Election Model Is FDR" op-ed, Oct. 24 excoriating Franklin Roosevelt's re-election strategy in 1936: It might be well to point out that Roosevelt handily defeated Alf Landon that year. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The clock on the wall ticked the seconds and minutes away with excoriating awareness. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Or if you're going to be confessional and completely excoriating emo-rock, then be the most. ❋ Mike Ragogna (2011)

You need that money because the public unions will start running television ads berating and excoriating--they did it to Gov. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Jason Kenney's Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration enforced a deportation order, quite possibly in a frenzy to prove to critics excoriating Harper's government for a number of incidents where brown-skinned citizens were stranded outside Canada that Conservative ministers are NOT acting on the basis of systemic and implicit racist policies and/or incompetence. ❋ Unknown (2009)

On colonialism, he is (I guess rightly) excoriating of the Belgians, and damning also of the British and Germans, but the Portuguese (in the modern era) get off rather lightly and the French are mentioned only really in passing, which I found a little odd. ❋ Rfmcdpei (2009)

This month, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) wrote a column [ "A better deal on for-profit colleges," Washington Forum] excoriating for-profit postsecondary education. ❋ Margaret Spellings (2010)

While real names are rare in Why We Left Islam, the authors knowing the possible consequences, they do not hold back in ranting and excoriating the system of government and faith they found themselves oppressed under. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Norman Pallot, an 88-year-old retired attorney and registered Republican in Weeki Wachee, Fla., wrote a letter to his local paper excoriating GE for moving its X-ray business to China. ❋ Kate Linebaugh (2011)

He was excoriating it, and everyone who ever took it literal in the entire long history of the world. ❋ RW Spryszak (2012)

In the midst of his daily monologue excoriating President Obama for the sluggish economy, Hannity paused long enough to commiserate with those who were too fiscally-strapped to buy the Christmas gifts they desired for their families. ❋ Edward Flattau (2011)