excoriation

Not a reason to back-pat, but not cause for ritual group-excoriation either.

Again and again, we see people who make one mistake either forced out of their jobs or held up for brutal public excoriation.

His excoriation of Douglas was scornfully withering and scorching.

A preacher wrote me the other day that he approved of every word of an "excoriation" that some religious editor had given me.

There is no tendency to spontaneous rupture, but should they be broken a superficial excoriation results.

A variety called hepatic dysentery, however, lacks the intestinal excoriation.

Dysentery is a flux of the bowels with a sanguinolent discharge and excoriation of the intestines.