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单词 scathing
释义
scathing
adjective
uk
/ˈskeɪ.ðɪŋ/us
/ˈskeɪ.ðɪŋ/
criticizingsomeone or something in asevereandunkindway:
严厉批评的，尖刻斥责的
scathingcriticism严厉的批评
He was very scathingaboutthereport, saying it wasinaccurate.他严厉批评了这份报告，说內容不准确。
Synonyms
critical(NOT PLEASED)
disparaging
vituperativeformal
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Critical & uncomplimentary
  • acidulous
  • astringency
  • astringently
  • barbed
  • be all very wellidiom
  • censorious
  • deprecating
  • derogatory
  • disapproving
  • pejorative
  • pointed
  • self-criticism
  • self-damning
  • shade
  • snark
  • snidely
  • snideness
  • sniffy
  • tar
  • throw shadeidiom
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scathingly
(Definition ofscathingfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

scathing| American Dictionary

scathing
adjective
us
/ˈskeɪ·ðɪŋ/
severelycriticalandunkind:
Hedelivereda scathingattackon thepresident.
(Definition ofscathingfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofscathing

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His first mention of her, a year and a half after his arrival in 1662 wasscathing.
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He wasscathingabout the present emphasis on talking through problems.
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She penned ascathingletter, chastising him for his lack of filial feeling.
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Some respondents were quitescathingabout their peers and colleagues.
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Every chapter includes some discussion of cultural relativism, cultural anthropology, or postmodernism, and her analyses are acute andscathing.
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She expressedscathingcriticism of those who assume, as a matter of principle, that communal land rights are a social good and a universal demand of indigenous peoples.
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Daniels wasscathingin his criticism of the soulless machine.
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Diller (1974) wrote ascathingattack on the compound/coordinate distinction, calling it a ' 'conceptual artifact' '.
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When he at last looked away from her, she felt as though she had been seared to the soul by thescathingdismissal in his eyes.19 20.
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Howells found thescathingreviews of surly critics to be quite as absurd and ill-motivated as "the botanist's grinding a plant underfoot because he does not find it pretty" (30).
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There are those who have saidscathingthings from time to time about horse racing and greyhound racing.
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I happen to have met several of those rubber planters about whom he is soscathing.
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That isscathingcriticism, and it is very important that we should have this inquiry to go into the charges that are here made.
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I do not think there was ever soscathingan indictment of a system as is contained in that report.
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I did not agree with hisscathingremarks about defence cuts.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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