excoriation

• “They will also suffer excoriation from the Repugs, who will say, "See, we knew your bill wouldn't make anything better," when in actuality, it will be the bill the Repugs wanted, i.e., the one without a public option.”

  Public option pullback?

• “In the next issue of my magazine, National Review, I published a 5,000-word excoriation of Welch:”

  The Wall Street Journal: Goldwater, the John Birch Society and Me

• “Only twelve years ago I wrote about “one of those little episodes in the relations between nations that illustrates the nature of alliances,” and in came that little blue note from Buckley expressing dismay with his customary one-word excoriation.”

  Simon & Schuster: No Uncertain Terms

• ““I have had several letters,” he wrote to Professor Edwin Mims, of Trinity College, North Carolina, “about an 'excoriation' (Great Heavens!”

  The Life and Letters of Walter H Page

• “Since he's telling the truth I expect a full excoriation treatment from the Limbaugh/Hannity wing and their mouthpiece Michael Steele.”

  Voinovich: The GOP's 'being taken over by Southerners'

• “Bush 43 was on the receiving end of eight years of lies, insults, and verbal excoriation delivered by the MSM.”

  President Obama concedes loss of House in 2010. | RedState

• “Nichol launched into a passionate excoriation of the Republican social agenda that targets: gays; women; students; middle class families; teachers; professors and Medicaid recipients while, "denying thousands of others the right to vote.”

  The Huffington Post: Michael Carmichael: Battleground North Carolina: Democratic Women Fired Up!

• “And each politician has to decide for himself whether or not his offenses are serious enough to merit resignation, and whether or not he can withstand the media scrutiny and public excoriation that may haunt him throughout the remainder of his term and during a re-election campaign.”

  The Huffington Post: Andy Ostroy: Time to Tuck Weiner Back Into the Nation's Pants and Move On

• “He was unrelenting in his support for the Palestinian cause and his excoriation of America's projections of power in Asia and Latin America.”

  The Guardian: Christopher Hitchens obituary

• “It ignores the willingness of the U.S. to join in public excoriation of the Jewish state and to emphasize that the U.S. and Israel can be separated diplomatically with very little effort.”

  The Washington Post: The U.N. veto and the real headline

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