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Stinging   /stˈɪŋɪŋ/   Listen
Stinging

adjective
1.
(of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character.  Synonyms: cutting, edged.  "Edged satire" , "A stinging comment"
noun
1.
A kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung.  Synonym: sting.  "He felt the stinging of nettles"


Sting

verb
(past stang; past part. stung; pres. part. stinging)
1.
Cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort.  Synonyms: bite, burn.
2.
Deliver a sting to.  Synonyms: bite, prick.
3.
Saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous.  Synonym: stick.  "I was stung with a huge tax bill"
4.
Cause a stinging pain.  Synonyms: prick, twinge.
5.
Cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging.



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"Stinging" Quotes from Famous Books



... day, so that my afternoon train out was delayed and dropped me at the station long after dark. The roads were blocked, the snow was knee-deep, the driving wind was horizontal, and the whirling ice particles like sharp sand, stinging, blinding as I bent ...
— The Hills of Hingham • Dallas Lore Sharp
... already dimly comprehending that his truly dangerous rival was the gambler, and that he could best serve the lady by helping to prove to her the real character of that individual. He was still blindly groping in the haze, yet out of Keith's sharp, stinging words there had come to him a guiding light. The latter ...
— Keith of the Border • Randall Parrish
... its heart. Narrow-leaved plantain is readily eaten by cattle, and the honey-bee gathers much pollen from it. The ox-eye daisy makes a fair quality of hay if cut before it gets ripe. The cows will eat the leaves of the burdock and the stinging nettles of the woods. But what cannot a cow's tongue stand? She will crop the poison ivy with impunity, and I think would eat thistles if she found them growing in the garden. Leeks and garlics are readily eaten by cattle in the spring, and are said to be medicinal to them. Weeds that yield ...
— The Writings of John Burroughs • John Burroughs
... the comparison. He restrained with some difficulty the stinging words of rebuke which sprang to ...
— Trusia - A Princess of Krovitch • Davis Brinton
... Then, with a sudden stinging consciousness, the thought came of all that her decision had meant to his life. The old question whether he had done right in marrying Ninitta forced itself upon him as if it were some enemy springing up from ambush. He raised his eyes, and his ...
— The Philistines • Arlo Bates


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