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excoriatingly en · ADV

Etymology

From excoriating + -ly.

Meanings

1. So as to excoriate.
   • 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.” 2009 February 26, Patricia Cohen, “Not Much Sympathy for Zoë Heller’s Characters, but a Little Understanding”, in New York Times:

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