(n.) The act of excoriating or flaying, or state of being excoriated, or stripped of the skin; abrasion.
(n.) Stripping of possession; spoliation.
Example Sentences:
(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.
Flay
Definition:
(v. t.) To skin; to strip off the skin or surface of; as, to flay an ox; to flay the green earth.
Example Sentences:
(1) The former foreign secretary, William Hague, warned earlier this month that central bankers could lose their independence if they ignored public anger over low interest rates, while Michael Gove, the leading pro-leave campaigner and former cabinet minister, compared Carney to the Chinese emperor Ming , whose “person was held to be inviolable and without imperfections” and whose critics were flayed alive.
(2) It was like a triple-bill version of those events that became such a feature of the 2005 campaign, when Tony Blair insisted on following what he called a “masochism strategy.” The leaders of the three main parties had to play the submissive, smiling politely as the flesh was flayed off them.
(3) Federer flays a backhand into the corner but Murray reads it and eventually he's able to send an easy backhand past Federer.
(4) Blair’s decisions will be exhumed, his reputation may well be flayed once more.
(5) Nuclease S1 analysis also revealed a protected fragment whose size was consistent with a transcript initiating in vivo at a consensus "nif" promoter sequence in front of the flaY gene.
(6) And Olivia Lee – who has the presenting style of a bossy girlfriend you'd flay a bag of kittens to be rid of – is not the woman to rebuild them.
(7) He has another flay at goal after gliding in from the right.
(8) We demonstrate here that two flagellar genes, flaE and flaY, whose products function in trans to modulate the level of transcription of other flagellar genes, are themselves temporally controlled.
(9) His skin was flayed by metal-hooked whips and a crown woven with thorns sunk into his scalp.
(10) (ii) hag gene expression was positively regulated by flaA, FLAB, flaC, flaD, flaE, flaG, flaH, flaI, flaK, flaL, flaM, flaN, flaO, flaP, flaQ, flaR, flaV, flaW, flaX, flaY, flaZ, flbA, and flbB genes.hag-lac expression was not observed in strains with these fla mutations.
(11) The land is low-lying, dwarfed by loch and sea, and flayed by wind.
(12) Incredibly, he was honoured by an international press that is now flaying him.
(13) This conclusion is based on two observations: the low level of synthesis of flagellins and chemotaxis proteins in flaY and flaE mutant strains occurred at the correct time in the cell cycle, and complementation with plasmids containing intact flaY and flaE genes resulted in the synthesis of normal levels of flagellins and chemotaxis gene products with the maintenance of temporal cell cycle control.
(14) In the old days, he would have flayed any minister daring to call for Bennite state investment to halt the sorry neglect of manufacturing.
(15) Clinton flayed Trump on his refusal to release his tax returns, on his “long record” of “racist behavior”, on his lack of knowledge about the deal to withdraw US troops from Iraq, on climate change being a Chinese “hoax”, and on and on.
(16) Its coarse, flayed bark made crisp curls and revealed holes and channels deep inside.
(17) He hits a high flay to right that looks like the crowd blows back into play.
(18) Using plasmid complementation, we have mapped the extent of the flaY and flaE genes.
(19) But he also feels a kinship with the tragic Fitzgerald, who set out to write a beautiful, groundbreaking, modernist book and found himself flayed by the critics and hung out to dry.
(20) "He has also compared one of Boris Johnson's staff to a war criminal, called for bankers to be hung, said those who don't vote for him will be 'flayed for all eternity' and likened the mayoral campaign to the second world war, referring to Boris as Hitler," the campaign said.