Scathing Definition

Scathing Sentence Examples

• He gave her a scathing look.

• May's change of side made him many bitter enemies, and he is the object of scathing condemnation from many of his contemporaries.

• Matthew Paris said that he had a heart of wax; Dante relegated him to the limbo of ineffectual souls; and later generations have endorsed these scathing judgments.

• In April 1754 Townshend was transformed from the position of a member of the board of trade, which he had held from 1749, to that of a lord of the admiralty, but at the close of 1 755 his passionate attack against the policy of the ministry, an attack which shared in popular estimation with the scathing denunciations of Pitt, the supreme success of Single-Speech Hamilton, and the hopeless failure of Lord Chesterfield's illegitimate son, caused his resignation.

• He didn't want to try to interpret the look or await her scathing return, not when he needed to find a place for them go to.