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Aid groups and governments have excoriated the GHF’s efforts as paltry, inefficient and haphazard.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2025

Reporters and fact-checkers have excoriated Schweizer for massive factual problems.

From Salon • Apr. 24, 2017

International rights groups, the United Nations and domestic critics have excoriated Australian officials for years over the bleak conditions in which the asylum seekers live.

From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2016

Some bloggers and gun enthusiasts have excoriated Ellis’s product; one labeled it “terrifying,” the worst less-lethal force idea ever.

From Washington Post • Feb. 3, 2015

People have excoriated the movement for months now, but it's the first time thousands of voices against Gamergate have spoken publicly under a common banner.

From The Verge • Oct. 15, 2014