excoriate

Now their lives are not going as well as he'd like, so he's decided to excoriate them for their decisions.

But I don't see why we need to excoriate Uber over an assumption that hasn't been verified.

As soon as you get the kooks who excoriate people for any slight deviation from the One True Faith, you end up failing miserably.

Trying to retroactively excoriate people for under reacting to a crisis is a little unfair.

Let's say he waited until his domain name expired... then he could say "I'm not spending the $10" and let it go offline, and people would excoriate him then.

Yes, it's irresponsible to _only_ excoriate the line workers.

Too many people excoriate journalists who say things they don't want to hear, so too many journalists pander to their audience.

There certainly are enough people out there; if not posting here; who would excoriate you for not knowing what any one one with a brain should have known/etc/etc

You excoriate Kennedy for not having had a "real job," so the mere fact that he is a Senator, rather than the way he conducts himself as a Senator, is what gets your goat.

Of course, such a stunt today would result in criminal charges of "terrorism" and lengthy prison sentences, all the while politicians would excoriate the hoaxers as enemies of the state.

Not only have we set up this system of living, but we've also acclimated to it, in the manner of Stockholm Syndrome, to the point where many reflexively defend it and excoriate those who propose living differently.