scathing

Speech parts

1. scathing - Adjective

2. scathing - Verb

4. scathing - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Scath

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

vituperative savage scornful salter critical acid severe pointed sharp cutting hostile harsh bitter verbal devastating
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Antonyms

white good acceptable mild accommodate accepting
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Phrases with the word

scathing tongue

Examples

Even the most conservative must realize that the recent transformation of surplus from an individual to a national disaster implies a scathing indictment of our capitalist system as it has now developed. Benjamin Graham

[These entrepreneurs] were writing their stories in a subgenre of contemporary fiction, the business plan, and populating them with characters endowed with deeply implausible personalities, an oversight which would eventually be punished not by a scathing review, ... but by a lack of custom. Alain de Botton

Hey, look-youris saying something." Artemis had a vast mental reserve of scathing comebacks at his disposal, but none of them covered girlfriend insults. He wasn't even sure if it was an insult. And if it was, who was being insulted? Him or the girl? Eoin Colfer

Mac continued to write scathing commentary on assorted hypocrisies in high places and low, without which hypocrisies, he cheerfully conceded, civilized life would be impossible. Jack McDevitt

Broadsheets can be scathing. But I have respect for broadsheet journalists because they haven't succumbed to degrading themselves, to writing pidgin English with all these terrible colloquialisms, the phrasing of which is just, like, embarrassing. Peaches Geldof

I was the editor of the school newspaper and in drama club and choir, so I was not a popular girl in the traditional sense, but I think I was known for being relatively scathing. Tina Fey

Close letter words and terms

scathely scathful scathfulness scathing tongue scathingly scathingness