flayers

/ˈfleɪərz/
noun
  1. People or tools that strip skin or outer covering from something.
    • Modern flayers in the tannery use machines to speed up the process.
    • The ancient flayers used sharp knives to remove the hides of animals.
    • The hunters hired professional flayers to prepare the pelts for sale.
  2. People who criticize others extremely harshly.
    • She avoided the flayers in the comment section who tore apart her article.
    • The online flayers left no kind words in their reviews of the new restaurant.
    • In the debate, the flayers on both sides attacked every point mercilessly.
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