~ (about sb/sth) criticizing sb or sth very severely:
a scathing attack on the new management * He was scathing about the government's performance. * Her father gave her a scathing look.
scathingly adverb:
'Oh, she's just a kid,' he said scathingly.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for scathing is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is scathing a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, scathing is tagged as adjective.
Does scathing appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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