How to pronounce“scathing”in English
and its allies have been dragged in. It emerged this aircraft carrier, the Prince of Wales, was being readied for a possible deployment, which met with a
scathing response from the US president. "The United Kingdom, our once great ally, maybe the greatest of them all, is finally giving serious thought to
sending two aircraft carriers to the Middle East," wrote the president on social media. "That's okay, Prime Minister. We don't need them any longer,
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Definitions of “scathing”
present participle and gerund of scathe
Harshly or bitterly critical; vitriolic.
“For months, Dati warned she would refuse to stand aside. Now she has stunned the political class with an open letter to Fillon in Le Monde, a scathing character assassination accusing him of the "lone ambition" of a disillusioned political elite, of doing politics in a way that "never favoured women" and stopping ethnic-minority candidates from progressing at elections. She said he was committing "a sad mistake" in trying to run in Paris.”
Harmful or painful; acerbic.
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