excoriatingly
English
editEtymology
editFrom excoriating + -ly.
Adverb
editexcoriatingly (comparative more excoriatingly, superlative most excoriatingly)
- 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.”