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Excoriate 1100 Words You Need Week 44 Day 3

Excoriate 1100 Words You Need Week 44 Day 3

Excoriate 1100 Words You Need Week 44 Day 3

/ekˈskɔː.ri.eɪt/ (verb)

to criticize a play, book or political action openly and vehemently, flay, attack, denounce, berate, rebuke, condemn, castigate, censure, damage or remove part of the surface or the skin, abrade, rub away, scrape, strip away, skin, peel

Americans Excoriate Media in New Poll That Shows How Far Reputation Has Fallen
The distrust many Americans feel toward the news media, caught up like much of the nation’s problems in the partisan divide, only seems to be getting worse.

That was the conclusion of a “sobering” study of attitudes toward the media conducted by Knight Foundation and Gallup and released Tuesday.

Source: https://www.westernjournal.com/

Antonym: commend, praise

Noun: excoriation

Noun: excoriator

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