biting

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• stop: It is misleading to state that not enough information is available on how to stop tail biting.

Modifies a noun

• midge: Clouds of biting midges can turn a pleasant walk into an ordeal.
• mouthpart: The virus is transmitted by various beetles with biting mouthparts.
• satire: A biting satire on the social aspiration, the play follows two women in their search for respectable husbands.
• sarcasm: However, Twain's biting sarcasm makes it a good book for adults too.
• insect: A new, much larger, biting insect is also suspected to have arrived in Scotland.
• wit: With biting wit, our line-up goes straight for the jugular.

Modifying Another Word

• back: ML: cos like the film The Player it comes across as a back biting sort of a place?
• not: Not biting, just flying the Lark flag on the Merlin site!
• really: I got off, and walked another few minutes in what was now really biting cold.
• sometimes: It's full of friendly and sometimes biting banter between the four of them but shows their camaraderie and respect for each other.
• no: If you do it every time, s/he will learn that if s/he wants to play there must be no biting.

Used with adjective complement

• nail: Open Water is a dramatic, nail biting filled movie.