| 词汇 | excoriate |
| 释义 | excoriate verb[ T ] formaluk /ekˈskɔː.ri.eɪt/ us /ekˈskɔːr.i.eɪt/ to write or say that a play, book, political action, etc. is very bad: 严厉指责，痛斥（戏剧、书、政治行为等） His latest novel received excoriating reviews.他的最新小说受到了严厉的批评。 The president excoriated the Western press for their biased views.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 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. Disapproving & criticizing anathematize animadversion aspersion aw backbite barrel bash belabour boo disapprobation knock knocker let someone have both barrelsidiom low blow mordacious mordancy pile slam there you goidiom union-basher Examples of excoriateexcoriate From a rational-choice perspective, it is excoriated for enabling coalitions of special interests to prevail over general interests. They both excoriated their contemporaries for their spiritual and cultural emptiness, and they both made enormous demands on life itself. Yet he never fails to register the passion that powers this sometimes frenzied, excoriating music. 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. 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. Adams himself excoriates the way classical music is 'oversold' in its marketing. Not content with the collapse of the left opposition in the 1990s, critics would seize the opportunity to excoriate the limits and 'emotionalism' that they had left behind. We know that all persons infested with lice are addicted to scratching themselves, whereby they excoriate their skin and frequently crush the lice upon their bodies. Craig often excoriates conventionalism in others while seeming to embrace it here. 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. Steiner himself is excoriated as unstable of mind and impediment of motive. He excoriated the scheme, before announcing—somewhat curiously—that he intended to take no part in any ballot in his constituency that might result. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Even those tabloids most regularly excoriated in the best circles were by no means always condemned. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We should have been excoriated for it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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