scathing

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈskeɪðɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -eɪðɪŋ

Verb

scathing

1. present participle and gerund of scathe

Adjective

scathing (comparative more scathing, superlative most scathing)

1. Harshly or bitterly critical; vitriolic.
   • 2011 December 14, Angelique Chrisafis, “Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism”, in Guardian‎^[1]:

     For months, Dati warned she would refuse to stand aside. Now she has stunned the political class with an open letter to Fillon in Le Monde, a scathing character assassination accusing him of the "lone ambition" of a disillusioned political elite, of doing politics in a way that "never favoured women" and stopping ethnic-minority candidates from progressing at elections. She said he was committing "a sad mistake" in trying to run in Paris.

2. Harmful or painful; acerbic.

Derived terms

• scathingly
• scathingness

Translations

harshly or bitterly critical

• Bulgarian: язвителен (bg) (jazvitelen)
• Catalan: mordaç (ca)
• Czech: kousavý (cs)
• Finnish: pureva (fi), terävä (fi)
• French: cinglant (fr)
• German: ätzend (de), bitter (de), bissig (de)
• Italian: caustico (it)
• Ottoman Turkish: آجی (acı) (of words)
• Portuguese: ferino
• Russian: е́дкий (ru) (jédkij), хлёсткий (ru) (xljóstkij)
• Serbo-Croatian: zajedljiv (sh)
• Spanish: acre (es), acerbo (es), inmisericorde (es)

harmful or painful

• Bulgarian: враждебен (bg) (vraždeben), увреждащ (bg) (uvreždašt)
• French: acerbe (fr)
• German: bitter (de), grausam (de)
• Spanish: hiriente (es)

Anagrams

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