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Unless a mind flayer takes them out first.

From New York Times • Mar. 6, 2021

Thersites skulks away, silenced, his Iliadic cameo at an end—but his long literary career as self-appointed flayer of heroic vanities is just beginning.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 9, 2016

Sinclair Lewis, flayer of babbitts, Baptists and Methodists, to Dorothy Thompson, daughter of a Methodist preacher, Berlin correspondent of the New York Evening Post.

From Time Magazine Archive

Author Lewis has concocted the synthetic Schmaltzian horror, only to flay it for having no imagination beyond its mechanistic world, and yet he, concocter, flayer, is a victim of the same mechanism.

From Time Magazine Archive

One Caboche, a flayer of beasts in the shambles of Hotel-Dieu, and Master John de Troyes, a surgeon with a talent for speaking, were their most active associates.

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 by Black, Robert