How to Use scathing in a Sentence

scathing

adjective
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  • There are still some rather scathing lines on the track.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The melodies get under your skin, the lyrics sear, the diss tracks are scathing, and the ballads will break your heart.
    — Zara Hanawalt, Parents, 19 Apr. 2024
  • On its own, that sounds like a scathing rebuke of two teammates.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Nov. 2021
  • Face beat, waves flowing, and dressed to kill, Vestal delivered the scathing EpiPen diss heard ’round the world.
    — Ariana Yaptangco, Glamour, 5 Mar. 2024
  • In her own words, the brash, scathing sound was born from a primal need to resist the hierarchy.
    — Tanu I. Raj, Billboard, 13 Feb. 2023
  • But any conclusion that went against it would have to climb mountains, and the reviews would be scathing.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2024
  • The agency released a scathing report in 1985 about the abuse, and made recommendations to the state.
    — Chelsia Rose Marcius, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2022
  • The move comes one day after a scathing ethics panel report on his conduct.
    — Lauren Peller, ABC News, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The discussion involves Byungsoo’s scathing view of the movie business at large.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Instead, aides focused on how sustained -- and scathing -- the attack on Trump should be.
    — Jeff Zeleny, Kaitlan Collins and Kevin Liptak, CNN, 6 Jan. 2022
  • In true comedic form, Molly gives a scathing speech about how John does so much harm to the world and suffers no consequences for it.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 22 May 2024
  • But no one writes a restaurant takedown like the British critics who seem to make a sport of scathing restaurant reviews.
    — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Vance, once one of Trump’s most scathing critics, has over the past two years become one of Trump’s fiercest defenders.
    — Amanda Garrett, USA TODAY, 16 July 2024
  • Meanwhile, people had some pretty scathing things to say about how Affleck looked at the Brady roast.
    — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 6 May 2024
  • Share your pointed and scathing opinion in the comments section.
    — Ali Solomon, The New Yorker, 25 July 2022
  • In a rather scathing takedown of the technology, The Verge’s Alex Cranz argues that some games streamed on the cloud are too dang hard to play on your phone.
    — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 5 July 2022
  • The right-wing opposition in New Zealand was even more scathing.
    — Natasha Frost, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Perhaps Swift was holding onto some even more scathing lyrics about the Sob Rock crooner.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 16 May 2023
  • Also: who is the audience for his funny, scathing rants these days?
    — Judy Berman, Time, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Employees on the way out the door could be especially scathing.
    — Jeff Horwitz, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2023
  • But the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals disagreed and offered a scathing rebuke.
    — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Response to Bennett’s sermon was swift and, in many cases, scathing.
    — Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 15 May 2024
  • On Wednesday, as early reviews of the show appeared in the British news media, some critics were scathing.
    — Alex Marshall, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2023
  • As expected, Rock used the special to offer his (scathing) thoughts on being slapped by Will Smith at the 2022 Oscars.
    — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Fletcher issued a scathing comment about the city’s actions.
    — Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2022
  • That’s because just over a decade ago, the U.S. Department of Justice released a scathing report about policing in the city.
    — ProPublica, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Yet the film, which NBC News saw ahead of its theatrical release, paints an often scathing portrait.
    — Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Rereading my scathing review in light of what is obviously a rave today, I am forced to grapple with my own past, and the play’s.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2023
  • But in the three months since the council — now all-Muslim and all male — banned the Pride flag on public property, there have been protests and scathing online critiques.
    — Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Lonely Planet’s depiction of elite authors could count as scathing satire if the film had a sharper knack for detail, or any sense of humor.
    — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Oct. 2024

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