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   scathing

   /ˈskeɪðɪŋ/

   adjective

   • 1. witheringly scornful; severely critical: "he unleashed a scathing attack on his former boss"

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   • 1. scathingly adverb

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   What is a scathing remark?

   • 1. harshly critical; scornful: a scathing remark. Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014 bitterly severe: a scathing remark.

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   What does scathing mean?

   • Define scathing. scathing synonyms, scathing pronunciation, scathing translation, English dictionary definition of scathing. adj. 1. Bitterly denunciatory; harshly critical: "a scathing tract on the uselessness of war" . 2. Harmful or painful; injurious. scath′ing·ly adv.

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   What does Scathe mean?

   • Scathe is a term meaning damage or injury.— It can also mean waste.— To injure something or someone is to scathe it.— Scatheful refers to something that is destructive.— Scathlessness means being without injury.— Scathy is an old Scottish term for mischievous or dangerous.

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   What is a word for a scathing attack?

   • adjective critical, cutting, biting, harsh, savage, brutal, searing, withering, belittling, sarcastic, caustic, scornful, vitriolic, trenchant, mordant, mordacious He then launched a scathing attack on previous leaders. Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

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   What does it mean if a person is scathed?

   • We often hear of a person coming through some difficult circumstance, or dangerous endeavor, and “emerging unscathed,” yet we rarely hear of anyone “emerging scathed.” Why is this? Scathe is a word: it may function as a noun (“harm, injury”) or as a verb (“to do harm to,” “to assail with withering denunciation”).

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   Are scathing letters cynical?

   • Scathing letters are all right, but they should be directed and stamped, then burned just before they are trusted to the mails. Scathing comments by Franklin on Thomas Penn's meanness, 138. Scathing as some of the portraits are, the writer is by no means merely cynical. Scathing definition: bitterly severe, as a remark.

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   Scathing means witheringly harsh. If you enter a singing contest and the judge says that your singing is like that of a toad with laryngitis, that is scathing criticism.

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