flays
- present tense form of flay (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Political correctness is only one of the many cherished attitudes that Berg flays.
From Washington Post • Dec. 13, 2022
What a shot that is, as Archer slips too wide and full outside off, and with the whole cover region open, Smith flays through the line to the boundary.
From The Guardian • Sep. 4, 2019
He similarly flays the response to the recent documentary about Michael Jackson and riskily spotlights a ten-year-old kid sitting in the front row.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 13, 2019
Using the surgical kit of New Journalism, Wolfe flays Darwin and Chomsky as imperious, self-aggrandizing snobs, each humiliated by a lower-class “clueless outsider who crashes the party of the big thinkers.”
From Washington Post • Aug. 31, 2016
His scorn blisters and scalds, his sarcasm flays; but then outside nature is constantly touching him with a summer breeze or a branch of pink and white apple-blossom, and his mood becomes tenderness itself.
From Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country by Smith, Alexander
