excoriatingly

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

excoriating +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

excoriatingly (comparative more excoriatingly, superlative most excoriatingly)

  1. So as to excoriate.
    • 2009 February 26, Patricia Cohen, “Not Much Sympathy for Zoë Heller’s Characters, but a Little Understanding”, in New York Times[1]:
      Released in Britain last fall, “The Believers” prompted a reviewer to write in The Guardian that Audrey is “a hilarious, foul-mouthed harridan: part monster, part inspiring law unto herself, her approach so excoriatingly direct that the reader waits in wincing glee for her next spitting and swearing tirade.”