What is "scathing"

Usage examples of "scathing".

Herself born to old money and all that went with a distinguished patronymic in Tidewater Virginia, she had nothing more than a scathing contempt for anyone bearing a title of nobility.

Not scathing insinuations from Kyle Damian that she was a bad mother, that her kids ran wild and unsupervised and she was a moral blemish on the face of Goose Creek and who took every opportunity to taunt her.

The mild stranger, not yet more than half sober, stood there, under a scathing fire of vituperation, meek and bewildered, looking from one to another of his assailants, and wondering what he could have done to invoke such a storm.

His guns roared in a pealing crescendo of rapid fire, a fire of such scathing accuracy that it drove his enemies to cover, and in the moment when they were ducking to cover, Bill Brakey sprinted for the car.

Hating the planet, the crippled ship that had brought him here, and the fins who were his fellow castaways, he drifted into a poignantly satisfying rehearsal of the scathing retorts he should have said to Keepiru.

Madeline leveled a scathing glare at her, collected a piece of ladyish needlework into her sewing basket, and exited in a major snit.

Arunder opened his mouth with a sneer to say something scathing, seemed to forget what it was, opened his mouth again to say something else, then instead put a glass of wine up to it and drank rather a large amount in a sputteringly short time.

Then finally, after increasingly scathing comments from Kai regarding his masculinity, he tested the water by dipping a single toe in the frigid lake.

Juniko felt even more scathing of the short-sighted biologists who were enthralled by the restricting concept of cloning future Shakespeares and other geniuses, which the Tator said he was willing to have done in all instances where it would serve the public interest.

And the scathing look Ralph bent on the audience left no doubts that the little man delighted in disconcerting the men of distinction, rank and position.

They wrote paeans of exaltation to the Tyrant and obscene, scathing attacks on Alberico at request.

Tinker had learned all the levels of Lain's praise, from the scathing backhanded compliment for a job sloppily done, to the Mona Lisa smile and swat for a clever but naughty act.

She truly believed that she was going to blurt out every scathing fact.

Rogi's whisper was scathing and his mental faGade, fortified with Dutch courage, no longer betrayed a hint of unease.

Under other circumstances and with later knowledge, Jayge might have forgiven him his irascibility, and even some of his scathing disapproval.