excoriatingly

English

Etymology

From excoriating +‎ -ly.

Adverb

excoriatingly (comparative more excoriatingly, superlative most excoriatingly)

1. 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.”