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- adverb So as to
excoriate .
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is telling that even though she be in her dotage far too many people doth protest too much about the Iron Lady and either become apoplectic at the mention of her name or quake in their boots and become shrill lest she may excoriatingly show up their appalling lack of authenticity.
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Stories like “Salvador”, “The Jaguar Hunter”, and the excoriatingly brilliant “R&R” deconstructed war and peace in South America, in both the past and the future, like no other writer of the fantastic.
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It was in the ordinary people like Wang Lung of The Good Earth that Buck put her hope, not communism, nor the Christianity preached by her excoriatingly zealous father.
Taipei Times 2010
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