(1) He told the court: “We have been trying at the bar to imagine whether we can think of any other group of legal or natural persons, terrorist suspects, arms dealers, Jews, in respect of whose evidence one might even begin to think that one could tenably say, ‘Well, of course, in looking at this evidence I have been very careful because I know from the past that these people are a bit devious and a bit unworthy, and the only thing they’re really interested in is subverting public health.’ ” Yet last week’s judgment, running to 1,000 paragraphs, confirmed in excoriating detail just how determined big tobacco has been down the decades to achieve precisely this goal.
(2) To a packed court, Mr Justice Gray delivered a verdict that excoriated Irving as a man and a historian.
(3) Former president Joyce Banda published a blistering press release in 2013 saying the singer “wants Malawi to be forever chained to the obligation of gratitude” for adopting children from the country, and excoriating her for expecting the government to roll out “a red carpet and blast the 21-gun salute” in honour of her visits.
(4) Interestingly, having been cheerleaders for Fifa through summer, TV channels spent much of the rest of the year attacking the organisation, culminating in all-round excoriation for its decision to take the World Cups of 2018 and 2022 into, er, new territory.
(5) Most newspapers were excoriating, for instance, about the failure of the City's self-regulating bodies to blow the whistle on Robert Maxwell's plunder of the Mirror pension fund .
(6) Those who finish Huck Finn still doubting Twain's own racial attitudes should read Following the Equator or Pudd'nhead Wilson , in which Twain excoriates the "one-drop rule" (the American law decreeing that "one drop of negro blood" made a person black): "To all intents and purposes Roxy was as white as anybody, but the one sixteenth of her which was black out-voted the other fifteen parts and made her a 'negro'."
(7) The authors report 2 cases of atypical vitiligo in which they observed 1) "cockade-like" lesions resembling those of "trichrome" vitiligo (from the centre to the periphery, achromic area, hypochromic ring, normal or hyperchromic border), 2) numerous linear achromic lesions corresponding to former excoriations (Koebner's phenomenon, isomorphic phenomenon).
(8) Excoriating the media and television voyeurism, he writes: "Sixteenth, what cable news does best now begins, and will continue for the next seventy-two hours: the slow and luxurious licking of tears from the faces of the bereaved."
(9) Foreign ministry spokesperson Lu Kang told reporters last week : “I believe that any US politician, if he takes the interests of his own people first, will adopt a policy that is conducive to the economic and trade cooperation between China and the US.” The excoriating editorial was printed hours after Trump spoke to China’s president, Xi Jinping.
(10) Four children with chronic diarrhoea and perianal excoriation after a pull-through operation for Hirschsprung's disease have been shown to have increased but not markedly raised levels of faecal bile acids.
(11) It began at last month’s Democratic convention when Khan’s father, Khizr, excoriated Trump and asked, “Have you even read the United States constitution?” while brandishing a copy above his head.
(12) Frequent changes of dressing are required and considerable skin excoriation and damage may occur.
(13) And viewed again in this mood, Libeskind's building, with its blank excoriated surfaces, looks closed to understanding; in material as in spirit, impenetrable.
(14) They were as victimised as any other prisoners at in Auschwitz.” Son of Saul review: an outstanding, excoriating look at evil in Auschwitz Read more Röhrig conceded that such confusion did persist, with even Primo Levi having insisted that the Sonderkommando were in some sense collaborators.
(15) Eighty-three patients were evaluated over a three-week period for pruritus, erythema, scaling, lichenification, excoriation, oozing, and global impression.
(16) When fresh urine from LCM tolerantly infected mice was applied to small areas of excoriated skin of guinea-pigs undiluted or diluted 10(-1), a high LCM infectivity developed in the local dermal tissue within 3 days and quickly spread to the lymphatic system.
(17) Despite being supported in his assessment by leading figures in the Israeli intelligence establishment, as well as the chairman of the Knesset's foreign affairs and defense committee, Dagan was nonetheless excoriated by Netanyahu for undermining his single-minded effort to pursue a military confrontation with the country.
(18) In the less fresh excoriations, a homogeneous substance, which includes fibrin deposits, is observed.
(19) The most common complications were skin excoriation secondary to leakage (3.5 percent), retraction (3.5 percent), partial necrosis (2.6 percent), and peristomal sepsis (1.8 percent).
(20) A transparent hydrocolloid dressing (THCD) was compared with a traditional paraffin gauze dressing (PGD) in the treatment of excoriations with special focus on patient acceptability.
Upbraid
Definition:
(v. t.) To charge with something wrong or disgraceful; to reproach; to cast something in the teeth of; -- followed by with or for, and formerly of, before the thing imputed.
(v. t.) To reprove severely; to rebuke; to chide.
(v. t.) To treat with contempt.
(v. t.) To object or urge as a matter of reproach; to cast up; -- with to before the person.
(v. i.) To utter upbraidings.
(n.) The act of reproaching; contumely.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is easier, after all, to upbraid a Chinese writer from afar than to risk public scorn and official disapproval in America by upholding the rights of Bradley Manning .
(2) Twitter user @GreenEpidemic ironically upbraided @JasonZubris for doubting the provenance of the message, pointing out that the sender promised the text was “highly legitimate” .
(3) Michael Gove's complaints about poor writing standards in English classrooms have been put in perspective after a 10-year-old upbraided him for grammatical inconsistencies in this week's spelling, punctuation and grammar tests.
(4) The 10-minute encounter, in which Paxman upbraided the comedian because he "can't be arsed to vote", became an unlikely YouTube hit, with 10 million views – nearly 20 times Newsnight's average audience.
(5) In the past, the US has upbraided both allies and adversaries over the indiscriminate use of aerial strikes.
(6) On Tuesday, Comey upbraided Clinton and her staff with a lengthy and scathing description of what agents had found on her private email servers.
(7) At this point in the story the principal character is upbraided by one of her superiors for having a transcendent experience, but keeping it to herself.
(8) He could have been upbraiding his earlier, over-promising self.
(9) Photograph: Kane Skennar It begins with vampires Viago (Waititi) and Vladislav (Clement) upbraiding their flatmate Deacon (Jonny Brugh) for slovenliness around their shared home.
(10) The latest development has seen a Romney aide furiously upbraiding journalists attending an event with Romney in Poland for wanting to ask questions of the candidate, telling journalists to "Kiss my ass."
(11) Meanwhile, an apparently penitent Mr Clinton made his most emotional appeal so far for the mercy and forgiveness of the American people, upbraiding himself as a sinner and issuing fresh apologies for his record of sex and lies with Ms Lewinsky.
(12) The frustrations of his campaign brains trust spilled over when the party’s pollster Mark Textor upbraided the electoral commission on social media for counting too slowly.
(13) One of the first things he did, establishing beyond doubt that things had changed, was to upbraid the mainstream media.
(14) Only last week he upbraided the comedian and actor, Russell Brand (video) on air for admitting that he has never voted and glibly predicting a revolution ("it is totally going to happen").
(15) I apologise for going on so long about my own ailments – a dreadful case of "anecdotal evidence", for which I am continually upbraided by clinical purists.
(16) In particular, the judge Goolam Meeran upbraided the UN, "the principal agency promoting the observance of human rights norms and practices and respect for the rule of law", for having "condoned such humiliating and degrading treatment of a member of its own staff".
(17) In a letter released on Tuesday night, May upbraided Gove for the Department for Education's handling of allegations regarding Islamists in Birmingham schools for what she called "the inability of local and central government to tackle the problem effectively".
(18) He once wrote: "The robust tabloids flashed the Green Light, were promptly denounced by other newspapers for their gaucherie or vulgarity or lèse majesté, and then were echoed by the very newspapers who had so severely upbraided them for their frankness."
(19) The Khans toured TV studios, explaining that grief had overwhelmed Ghazala when she saw a photo of her son – and then the couple calmly upbraided the Republican nominee’s character.
(20) She is shouted at by family members for being late and not spending enough time with each client, then upbraided by the company because of the complaints it receives.