Meanings
comparative more scathingly · superlative most scathingly
- In a scathing manner.
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When Tim Kinsella, of the pioneering indie rock groups Cap’n Jazz and Joan of Arc, wrote a scathingly sarcastic editorial in the emo-centric magazine Alternative Press imploring every band inside to break up, Bemis bristled at Kinsella’s cynicism, calling him a “self-hating emophobe” in a letter to the magazine.
2006 November 2, August Brown, “Don’t get comfortable around them”, in Los Angeles Times
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbin a scathing and unsparing manner
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
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scathingly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scathingly
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