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词汇 scathing
释义 scathing
adjective
uk /ˈskeɪ.ðɪŋ/ us /ˈskeɪ.ðɪŋ/
criticizing someone or something in a severe and unkind way: 严厉批评的,尖刻斥责的
scathing criticism严厉的批评
He was very scathing about the report, saying it was inaccurate.他严厉批评了这份报告,说內容不准确。
Synonyms
critical(NOT PLEASED)
disparaging
vituperativeformal
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Critical & uncomplimentary
acidulous
aloof
astringency
astringently
barbed
be all very wellidiom
captious
censorious
damning
derogatory
hypercritical
pungently
scarifying
scarifyingly
scathingly
scorchingly
shade
uncomplimentary
venomous
witheringly

Related word


scathingly

scathing | American Dictionary


scathing
adjective
us/ˈskeɪ·ðɪŋ/
severely critical and unkind:
He delivered a scathing attack on the president.

Examples of scathing


scathing
His first mention of her, a year and a half after his arrival in 1662 was scathing.
He was scathing about the present emphasis on talking through problems.
She penned a scathing letter, chastising him for his lack of filial feeling.
Some respondents were quite scathing about their peers and colleagues.
Every chapter includes some discussion of cultural relativism, cultural anthropology, or postmodernism, and her analyses are acute and scathing.
She expressed scathing criticism of those who assume, as a matter of principle, that communal land rights are a social good and a universal demand of indigenous peoples.
Daniels was scathing in his criticism of the soulless machine.
Diller (1974) wrote a scathing attack on the compound/coordinate distinction, calling it a ' 'conceptual artifact' '.
When he at last looked away from her, she felt as though she had been seared to the soul by the scathing dismissal in his eyes.19 20.
Howells found the scathing reviews of surly critics to be quite as absurd and ill-motivated as "the botanist's grinding a plant underfoot because he does not find it pretty" (30).
There are those who have said scathing things from time to time about horse racing and greyhound racing.
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I happen to have met several of those rubber planters about whom he is so scathing.
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That is scathing criticism, and it is very important that we should have this inquiry to go into the charges that are here made.
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I do not think there was ever so scathing an indictment of a system as is contained in that report.
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I did not agree with his scathing remarks about defence cuts.
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