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.

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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
He was particularly scathing about a young political adviser who, he predicted, would be the ruin of us. Times, Sunday Times
He closes with a scathing remark about the number of pen-pushers at the defense department.
It's bound to happen sooner or later that a review you write will rile someone enough to write a scathing email.
Especially during the heyday of Bloomfieldian structuralism, linguists were scathing of conceptual definitions of word classes.
There have been too many times when I've been relieved to finally be able to post a halfway-positive review after a string of scathingly negative ones, because I was starting to worry I was coming off as some kind of buzzkill curmudgeon. Archive 2009-03-08
Mondes_ a scathing, anonymous criticism of the first dizain of the Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings
Jason snorted in derision and crossed his arms over his chest, looking at her scathingly.
In a scathing report they say there are massive shortages of spare parts and almost half of commanders' equipment needs are not being met in time. The Sun
On this the farm worker is most scathing: fresh air does not pay his electricity bill.
Speaking ahead of the lecture, the critic launched a scathing attack on the contemporary British art scene dismissing Brit Art as a journalistic invention.
The scathing report urges drastic action after finding that the voting system remains dangerously inefficient and open to fraud. Times, Sunday Times
We have been scathing in the past about mobile apps and so-called m-commerce and we still apply the litmus test ‘what can you do on a tiny green screen that is useful?’
Instead, she delivered what looked like a scathing remark and marched toward the door with Henry scrambling after her.
Much of this disc is split between songs that are scathing social commentaries and songs that seem to be inside jokes for his circle of friends.
In his first major address to his Christian flock, Pope Adrian launched a scathing attack on the Christian Church, which was rocked by scandals of all sorts.
His unusual head of red corkscrew curls, his unconventional looks, have attracted some scathing press.
Last week Thai retailers launched a scathing attack on the government for not doing enough to protect them from foreign competitors.
The scathing report urges drastic action after finding that the voting system remains dangerously inefficient and open to fraud. Times, Sunday Times
A government spending watchdog today launched a scathing attack on attempts to cut congestion.
So you do wonder, if she knows that's the case, why David Cameron and the Shadow Cabinet have still been sent to "ginger up" her party's "lacklustre" performance North of the Border - again these are not my words, but instead the rather more scathing words of the Torygraph. Are The Tories Just A Party of The Home Counties?
Scathing reports on the surgical department then led to the surgical unit temporarily losing its training status for junior doctors.
Cordelia rolled her eyes, but was too tired to give a scathing retort.
his scathing remarks about silly lady novelists
Blithe and boldfaced, Xena: Warrior Princess's quest is to entertain despite the slings and arrows of scathing, sardonic criticism.
BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: A scathing report details what it calls deadly deficiencies at Children's Hospital in Boston. CNN Transcript Sep 22, 2003
Her scathing glance slid over me, taking in the baggy shirt and long skirt.
He is scathing about the charities and initiatives set up to save rhinos, elephants and pretty animals. Times, Sunday Times
He was acquitted amid scathing criticism of the police from the judge. Times, Sunday Times
The scathing report urges drastic action after finding that the voting system remains dangerously inefficient and open to fraud. Times, Sunday Times
And he is scathing in his criticism of current manifestations of loyalist paramilitarism.
He launched a scathing attack on both the EU and the Department of Marine in advance of tomorrow's blockade of fishing ports.
We in the communities, in the labour movement, in the schools, are saying it is not enough to write highfaluting theories about us, get doctorates in the process, and become so-called experts on this or that organisation or field, to develop your scathing critiques from the safe walls and desks of your professions, and thereby hope to gain acceptance or recognition in our daily struggles. Children of Resistence
And why had he been so angry and contemptuous, so scathing about her broken engagement?
Raven was about to respond scathingly but her wrist give an extra painful throb.
Many wrote scathing criticism of their superiors, only to see their reports censored and rewritten. The Sun
Dispatches from early this year, for instance, quote the aging monarch of Saudi Arabia, King Abdullah, as speaking scathingly about the leaders of Iraq and Pakistan.
For what it is, Todd's C-SPAN diatribe is scathing! David Arquette? The subtle art of the C-SPAN breakup
The agent is especially scathing about the mock fireplaces and fake cornicing. Times, Sunday Times
With the latest steps to unblock sites, Myanmar residents now have access to a wide array of foreign news sources, as well as dissident publications such as the Irrawaddy, which is based in Thailand and regularly publishes scathing criticisms of Myanmar's government. Myanmar Relaxes Media Grip
Her speech was a scathing indictment of the government's record on crime.
Three days after he was recalled, he stepped down amid scathing criticism of the federal government's inadequate response to the hurricane disaster.
A government spending watchdog today launched a scathing attack on attempts to cut congestion.
He was particularly scathing about the increasing number of desserts served in Scotland. The Sun
Chorley boss Mark Molyneaux has launched a scathing attack on a ‘minority’ of supporters he feels are unfairly barracking his players.
'scathing satire' (does satire ever 'scathe'?) or Fielding's rough horseplay. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)
Ten years passing only heightens his status as a true street poet, devoid of current bling-bling pretense and full of scathing wit and sharp charm.
These first two tracks establish the pattern for the rest of the album; a beautifully stripped-down ballad here, a scathing stoner-rock epic there.
Thanks to Gervais' inspired – and, yes, occasionally scathing – stewardship, the Globes steered clear of the pretension and self-worship to which awards shows so often fall victim. Which Of His Golden Globes Jokes Crossed The Line?
You can see this new mood at work in the scathing reviews now being garnered by vacuous conceptual artists who were acclaimed in the 1990s. Times, Sunday Times
She didn't bother answering that, giving him a scathing look instead.
Life went on, my reputation as an evil pro prostitution member seemed to grown not retract from the scathing criticisms. Pause to consider « Bound, Not Gagged
It ends up being more a plea for tolerance than a scathing indictment of self-important religious rightness.
There was an access report commissioned by industry on it, which was tough, hard, hard-hitting, even scathing.
To this end, helpful responses are mildly sardonic, while acerbic comments are scathing, derisive insults.
On hearing that Smith was engaged, she cancelled her visit, wrote him a scathing letter and returned the box of books his firm customarily sent her.
He was very scathing about the report, saying it was inaccurate.
How can justice be served when scathing criticism is anonymously voiced against coaches who aren't in a position to defend themselves? Times, Sunday Times
The police inquiry was triggered by a scathing report published in February on her expenses. Times, Sunday Times
Ten years passing only heightens his status as a true street poet, devoid of current bling-bling pretense and full of scathing wit and sharp charm.
This source was schtummed when Julia posted a scathing rebuke on the thread, really very angry.
When the motion was narrowly defeated it led to scathing criticism by the national print media in particular, he noted.
Miller was especially wounded by Mailer's scathing verdict on his uncharacteristically whimsical travelogue The Colossus Of Maroussi.
His report was scathing about Loyalist and Republican terror groups.
In London between the World Wars, the pleasure-loving young aristocrats whom the press has scathingly dubbed "bright young things" are living it up.
So, in the spirit of giving till it hurts, let me offer up to the least deserving of us my annual scathingly incisive yet perennially trenchant.
* More than any other person in zoological writing, Olson has produced an impressive list of scathing quotes and insults. Archive 2006-10-01
Soft Skull publisher and all-around NYC belletrist Richard Nash recently posted a scathing opinion piece on this site about Book Expo America's decision to limit floor hours (and effectively cancel an opening night party) at BEA 2010. Nick Antosca: How to Throw a Party for Books: the NBA's 5 Under 35 Event
On their scathing fifteen-song disc, they do everything they can to bring the danger back to loud, fast, dirty guitar rock.
The development has attracted scathing criticism of Federal legislation, which deems the antennae low impact and thus not requiring a development application.
The report is scathing about the financial incontinence of bankers and consumers but complacent about regulatory failures.
The admission drew a scathing attack from the Opposition, with Mr Gilmore calling for his resignation.
Today we examine left-winger Ted Rall's much more scathing cartoon on the same theme.
He is particularly scathing about one member whom he characterises as callous, spineless and non-confrontational to the point of duplicity.
The judge was scathing in his criticism of the way the Kampala office handled the application. Times, Sunday Times
The editorial writer in The Lancet of December 22, 1866 was scathing about Mr Brown and about The Times, calling, with vigorous irony, for a "grand assize of clitoridectomy" at which the lunatic asylums of Europe would be cleared by means of what Mr Baker Brown "with the pardonable pride of an inventor, calls my invention". Peter Stothard - Times Online - WBLG:
First, the comic strip beginnings; second, the way the movie has been characterized in the unanimously scathing reviews I've read; third, the reputation for camp and spoofiness that has settled over Groovy Age popular spy entertainment in general; and finally the fact that even the MB novels were to some degree packaged as such. Archive 2009-02-01
Many wrote scathing criticism of their superiors, only to see their reports censored and rewritten. The Sun
Allain Jules, writing on collective blogging website agoravox, is more scathing and wonders why the case did not draw more attention [Fr]: Global Voices in English » In France, Sudan, Burqas and Trousers Cause Controversy
His first year at the helm was an unprecedented success that resulted in three long-running hits—Gurney's examination of WASP moeurs, ‘The Dining Room’, Durang's scathing ‘Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You’ and Jonathan Reynolds's satire of Hollywood egomania, ‘Geniuses’.
True, not everybody loves her; there are some who taunt Martha with sarcastic parodies, bilious caricatures, and scathing articles.
More than 500 hospital doctors have launched a scathing attack on a proposed new contract for consultants, condemning it as ‘demeaning and unprofessional’.
To Herder as to everyone else Goethe aired his opinions with the "frank confidingness" which he notes as a trait of his own character, and which gave Herder frequent opportunities for scathing criticism. The Youth of Goethe
The book was a scathing attack on the media establishment.
While the economists' statement was couched in fairly mild language, an editorial in last Tuesday's edition of the Financial Times was positively scathing.
The scathing report urges drastic action after finding that the voting system remains dangerously inefficient and open to fraud. Times, Sunday Times
True, not everybody loves her; there are some who taunt her with sarcastic parodies, bilious caricatures, and scathing articles.
For those of you staring at the byline about to reach for your pens and write scathing letters crying out nepotism and other indecent dishonesties, sit down.
I am equally as scathing at “old lags” doing likewise. punctum on 12 March 2010 STARSHIP – “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now” | FreakyTrigger
Instead, he cursed, caroused and shocked moviegoers as the hard-drinking reprobate coach and player for a ragtag hockey team in 1977's Slap Shot, one of the rowdiest, crudest, funniest and most scathingly honest sports comedies ever. Paul Newman: A rare breed
And so I used hyperbole in writing a wittily scathing song back. Times, Sunday Times
Contrary to the tone of the scores of scathing e-mails she's still receiving, Shannon McDonald insists that she is not antipolice. Philly.com - Latest Videos
The report was scathing about the lack of safety precautions.
The notions of statehood, community and national allegiances are all held up for examination, and he is especially scathing about the development of the British Empire.
At the moment the TVs broadcast a repeating loop of one of the Guerilla News Network's pastiched send-ups of Bush's war yammer from last year - another scathing and witty but oft-screened bit of insurgent Final Cut Pro handiwork.
He went on to launch a characteristically scathing attack on the newspaper, and on the eyewitness testimonies of the night in question.
The inspection report contains scathing criticism of teaching standards in a third of areas and highlights poor management, failure at record-keeping and severe financial difficulties.
Both were scathing analyses of the relationship of the design profession and the forces of corporate commercialism.
The scathing attack from consumer watchdogs comes only months after the introduction of a strict code of practice designed to improve services.
Many wrote scathing criticism of their superiors, only to see their reports censored and rewritten. The Sun
Whatever happened to the applaudable moral values you upheld in the classic scathing satirical attack on corporate mentality and economic imperialism?
Pat Quinn has caught up in recent polls after running scathing ads suggesting his opponent is a gun-happy tax cheat who wants to cut the minimum wage. Democrats See Glimmer Of Hope Ahead Of 2010 Midterm Elections
This scathing assessment of the ruling meant that critics would have to find solid arguments to attack his work, rather than rely on mud-slinging, Mr Lomborg said.
We shall see that He adopted another tone when He was properly arraigned before the assembled Sanhedrim; but in this more private, injudicial, inquisitorial interview, with one scathing rebuke He tore away the cloak of assumed ignorance with which this crafty man veiled his sinister purpose, and laid His secret thoughts open to the gaze of all. Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI.
Many wrote scathing criticism of their superiors, only to see their reports censored and rewritten. The Sun
Placebo's love affair with the British music press screeched to a halt in mid-2000 when the NME penned a scathing feature accusing the singer of being arrogant, difficult, unapproachable, obnoxious and deluded.
Frances, who expected Painter to say something scathing, was astonished to see him beam at this extravagance. INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3
Some of his most scathing mockery is reserved for people who take out loans to pay tuition at an expensive private college. Lead Us Not Into Debt
The most scathing review was in the New York Post, which described it as ‘a movie so pathetically lame even her most ardent young fans will give this stinker a big thumbs down’.
You can see this new mood at work in the scathing reviews now being garnered by vacuous conceptual artists who were acclaimed in the 1990s. Times, Sunday Times
From time-to-time, when high-profile hype collides with scathing advance screening reviews, the inevitable result is an ugly pre-release reputation.
The scathing report urges drastic action after finding that the voting system remains dangerously inefficient and open to fraud. Times, Sunday Times
It's hilariously funny and scathingly insightful.
Meanwhile, Southend United chairman Ron Martin has launched a scathing attack on HM Revenue and Customs and accused them of trying to 'unglue' the Shrimpers. Give Me Football Featured Content
He is particularly scathing about day trading. Times, Sunday Times
Becoming involved in a quarrel with a publisher, William Cobbett, he published a scathing reply in a Hudibrastic poem, "The Porcupiniad", in 1799. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
Her speech was a scathing indictment of the government's record on crime.
Her speech was a scathing indictment of the government's record on crime.
A furtive homosexual, he pocked his fiction with scathing descriptions of effeminate men.
If a man writes a scathing piece about men in power, it's seen as his job; a woman can be cast as an emasculating man-hater.
Once, the prince of misery's career reached such a dramatic nadir one scathing reviewer branded him a ‘boring old drone’.
Sydney's eyes narrowed in response and she willed her sharp tongue to spit back a scathing retort.
The Dragons are ready to rip their dreams apart with a scathing put-down or withering look. The Sun
Miss Andrews, taking them for dictation, and Miss Stone, hearing their repetition during the afternoon, were as scathing as the others. CHALLENGE FOR THE CHALET SCHOOL
But it neatly charts the changes in medical orthodoxy, not least since 1986, when a scathing British Medical Association report was still portraying alternative therapies as daffy nostrums peddled by quacks.
The Commons home affairs select committee last year produced a scathing report on agencies' failings. Times, Sunday Times
'Oh, she's just a kid,' he said scathingly.
Catherine kept her expression blank as Miss Almay shot her and Theresa a scathing look. The Book Of Spells
You can see this new mood at work in the scathing reviews now being garnered by vacuous conceptual artists who were acclaimed in the 1990s. Times, Sunday Times
In a scathing attack on the minister's record, Richard said a buccaneering approach to managing the national finances had destroyed the confidence which was the vital component in Ireland's economic success.
[Page 347] back to us with their honors thick upon them; I remember one who returned with the prize in oratory from a contest between several western State universities, proudly testifying that he had obtained his confidence in our Henry Clay Club; another came back with a degree from Harvard University saying that he had made up his mind to go there the summer I read Royce's "Aspects of Modern Philosophy" with a group of young men who had challenged my scathing remark that Herbert Spencer was not the only man who had ventured a solution of the riddles of the universe. Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes
One was a scathing demolition of James Atlas's biography of Saul Bellow by Richard Poirier, who described it as a 'censorious' and 'condescending' work, fueled by 'craven hostility' toward its subject. Tracking the Untrackable
A Bradford councillor has made a scathing attack on preservationists who are bitterly opposed to the construction of an Aire Valley motorway.
Bill Maher has offered some scathing criticism of Obama of late, ranting against the president's televisional ubiquity and questioning Obama's political substance on his show, in an op-ed in the LA Times, and in an interview with MSNBC's Keith Olbermann. FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog
He made a scathing attack on the statement.
Then at least she wouldn't have to endure the scathing comments of Mr Luke-perfect-Crawford down there.
The paper weighs in with a scathing editorial about the dress code debacle here.
The scathing report urges drastic action after finding that the voting system remains dangerously inefficient and open to fraud. Times, Sunday Times
That recommendation was met with scathing condemnation by an internal Pentagon inquiry leaked last week.
The entire bus ride, I scratched out the most scathing letter.
Reviewers called it a scathing, devastating expose of the former centerfold and reality star, but frankly, it wasn't that hard to scathe and devastate. Gabriel Rotello: Anna Nicole and Daniel and Us
Bloom paints a scathing portrait of Meinke in her memoirs.
She spoke scathingly of the poor standard of work done by her predecessor.
You would have expected a convert to free market economics to have been equally scathing of both public service corporations.
Meanwhile, the Audit Commission's scathing report on the running of the criminal justice system says the £80m wastage would pay for thousands more police officers.
Mr. Stein blamed a scathing review by Frank Rich, who wrote in the New York Times that the characters were hollow symbols of the American immigrant experience. Joseph Stein, writer of Broadway's "Fiddler on the Roof" and "Zorba," dies at 98
On the press, Joe Ashton is scathing and one must feel sympathy for what he says.
It was the Dowager who spoke first, and her whole voice and manner expressed all she intended that they should, all the derision, dislike and scathing resignment to a grotesque fate. The Shuttle
But then they are equally scathing about anything that fails to measure up to their own exacting standards.
He then turned on the assembled crowd and mounted a scathing verbal attack on them.
Explicitly sexual lyrics and suggestive dancing have sparked scathing newspaper columns and local judges have banned minors from attending the dances.
Most wither in the heat of the Dragons' scathing criticism as business plans are picked apart and fatal flaws exposed. The Sun
You can see this new mood at work in the scathing reviews now being garnered by vacuous conceptual artists who were acclaimed in the 1990s. Times, Sunday Times
He then slipped out of the cabin, and hasped the door on the outside, in spite of Clarice's shrill and scathing disapproval.
according to the scathing on-screen script it matches one kind of bric-a-brac with another, sending up all kinds of rhetoric from computer etiquette to management deadspeak. The Guardian World News
Downing Street last night tried to gloss over Lord Butler's scathing, but tactfully phrased verdict on its shambolically informal style of government.
With such scathing one-liners Steers gives his film a hard carapace of irony.
Chairwoman of the Geraldton Health Service, Berit Young, was scathing in her rejection of the federation's claims.
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.
His actions and decisions have also brought scathing criticism.
This scathing assessment of the ruling meant that critics would have to find solid arguments to attack his work, rather than rely on mud-slinging, Mr Lomborg said.
Dimitri shot him a scathing glower, though it gained him nothing.
He peels the spuds, digs the garden and with a virginal innocence shifts his affections from the daughter to the mother; yet he is also quietly scathing about the journeyman daubs of his fellow lodger.
His report was scathing about Loyalist and Republican terror groups.
It takes every ounce of self-control that I have to not retort back with a scathing remark about what a fool she is.
I will, however,just comment that a sort of "clericalist" mindset, which is always a danger within the Church and about which Chaucer, for example, is scathing, and also Thomas More some centuries later was particularly strong in the first half of the 20th century for various reasons. The word "Westminster"...
There's no question she has the experience, intelligence and insider dirt to do a thorough and scathing analysis of the increasingly icky relationship between celebrity and media.
So maybe watch out for his scathing reviews of other music companies still funded by the council. Times, Sunday Times
Addressing the Press afterwards he made a scathing attack on the IEC, accusing it of "conniving" to rig the elections. ANC Daily News Briefing
Blackett's scathing remarks will have reverberated within both government and the military authorities and perhaps the host of pending courts martial will be reappraised, in advance.
He made a scathing attack on the statement.

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