How to Use scathing in a Sentence

scathing

adjective

• 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
• 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
• 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
• Over the course of the episode, flashbacks reveal that Jen didn't kill Steve in self-defense, but in reaction to his scathing words about her own husband Ted's death.
  — Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 24 Sep. 2022
• David Frost, a former Brexit minister, launched a scathing attack on the politician who was once his deputy.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 14 July 2022
• Kudrow, in particular, gets several beats in the home stretch that turn Penelope from just a source of scathing one-liners into somebody sympathetic and human.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 July 2024
• Meghan had her employees speak on her behalf in a big, splashy magazine cover to fight back against a new series of workplace bullying allegations, which first emerged in a scathing Sept. 12 article in The Hollywood Reporter.
  — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 1 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024