[ US /ˈskeɪðɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /skˈe‍ɪðɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. marked by harshly abusive criticism
    his scathing remarks about silly lady novelists
    her vituperative railing
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How To Use scathing In A Sentence

  • She gives me a look so scathing that it melts the froth on my cappuccino. Times, Sunday Times
  • You would have expected a convert to free market economics to have been equally scathing of both public service corporations.
  • A scathing report said basic security disciplines had been forgotten. The Sun
  • The judge's scathing criticism leaves the government with a major headache.
  • The committee yesterday launched a scathing attack on British business for failing to invest.
  • The inquiry was launched four months after Gotham published a scathing dossier. Times, Sunday Times
  • she criticized him scathingly
  • The novel satirizes the American South before the Civil War, and scathingly examines the South's embrace of slavery, racism, and lynchings.
  • Even though he had to raise his voice to be heard over the cacophony of barks and meows and snarls, Al made sure his tone was scathing as he went on opening cages.
  • Many wrote scathing criticism of their superiors, only to see their reports censored and rewritten. The Sun
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