He was a leading adornment of the establishment he liked to excoriate.

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Too many Republicans are said to be reluctant to criticize a leader of their own party for engaging in behavior they rightly would excoriate any Democrat for perpetrating.

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On the other hand, it is permissible to excoriate Myanmar or Cambodia on humanitarian grounds, since neither country poses the kind of threat to the international system that realists care about.

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They excoriate a recent pension reform as confiscatory.

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The authors excoriate the U.S. Fed under Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke for conducting a recklessly (and, we know, disastrously) expansionary monetary policy from 1995-2006, with money supply growth of 5.3 percent about inflation (p. 256 of the book).

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Rather than boasting about a personal proclivity for private jets as many rappers are wont to do, he takes advantage of a lyrical opportunity to excoriate corporate America for its gas-guzzling tastes, while at the same time taking the bold stance that Iraq was better off under Saddam Hussein.

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Israel's political right was correct in warning that the government's security-endangering concessions and its willingness to redivide Jerusalem wouldn't bring a lasting peace, and that turning a blind eye to Arafat's oppressive and corrupt dictatorship and ignoring Palestinian textbooks that excoriate Jews as the scum of the earth wouldn't create conditions among Arabs for the acceptance of the Jewish state's existence.

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