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 scathing ['skeiðiŋ]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 伤害的, 损伤的, 严厉的



    scathing
    [ adj ]
    marked by harshly abusive criticism
    <adj.all>
    his scathing remarks about silly lady novelistsher vituperative railing


    Scathe \Scathe\ (sk[=a][th]; 277), Scath \Scath\ (sk[a^]th;
    277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Scathed} (sk[=a][th]d or
    sk[a^]tht); p. pr. & vb. n. {Scathing} (sk[=a][th]"[i^]ng or
    sk[a^]th"-).] [Icel. ska[eth]a; akin to AS. scea[eth]an,
    sce[eth][eth]an, Dan. skade, Sw. skada, D. & G. schaden, OHG.
    scad[=o]n, Goth. ska[thorn]jan.]
    To do harm to; to injure; to damage; to waste; to destroy.

    As when heaven's fire
    Hath scathed the forest oaks or mountain pines.
    --Milton.

    Strokes of calamity that scathe and scorch the soul.
    --W. Irving.

    1. Less successful investors scour the chairman's annual statement for hints from the master. Buffett is routinely scathing about "institutional investors' - one of those self-contradictions called an oxymoron, comparable to 'lady mudwrestler".
    2. Echoing a scathing editorial Rosen wrote recently in one of his country's major newspapers, the rabbi said of the Jews' enemies: "What do they want from us?
    3. Judge Sam D. Johnson of Austin, Texas, in a scathing 47-page dissent, wrote: "The majority opinion is not simply wrong, it is dangerous." The decision affects nine Texas counties but has possible broader applications.
    4. His first, Greenvoe, coupled a Dylan Thomas-like skill at charting small-town life with a scathing attack on 'progress' in the form of uranium mining (set to music in Peter Maxwell Davies's cantata Black Pentecost).
    5. The late Leon Jaworski, the famed Watergate special prosecutor, wrote a scathing critique after attending one of Grusin's sessions.
    6. In this general atmosphere of eager self-loathing, the cultural event of the moment is a scathing documentary on Soviet life called "One Shouldn't Live This Way," by Stanislav Govorukhin.
    7. Now, Logan admits bluntly, his research is almost certainly finished, because of a scathing report by federal investigators.
    8. The commission found that no other manufacturers were illegally exploiting monopoly power, however. The report's most scathing criticism was of Boots, the UK's largest chain of chemists.
    9. For his part, Cleveland also could use scathing rhetoric.
    10. However, the crucial 6,500 rail-industry voters may prove more elusive. He is scathing about 'sabre rattling' by workers at Brel, the privatised train maker.
    11. Fang led the way with scathing remarks about Marxism and calls for democratic change in this one-party state.
    12. The pope says that we can now see how prescient Leo XIII was in his scathing critique of the socialist idea 100 years ago.
    13. "The procedures employed stand as a striking departure from this court's long tradition of fair and even-handed adjudication," the brief said in one of several scathing attacks on the judge's handling of the immunity question.
    14. A deputy in the new Soviet parliament today gave a scathing review of the nation's agricultural system and said the Poliburo member in charge of the vast network of state-run farms is incompetent.
    15. Mr. McCarthy's first scathing review of Grand Junction brought hate mail from townsfolk and a return salvo from their daily newspaper, which called the Stepford wives comment a "blow below the garter belt."
    16. While SEC enforcement officials won't talk about the letters, Commissioner Edward Fleischman yesterday issued a scathing reproach to his own agency, arguing that it had basically gone back on its word to Wall Street that similar stock sales were fine.
    17. Reaction among London critics who saw the film at a press preview Thursday ranged from scathing criticism and charges it was theologically offensive and artistically incompetent to lukewarm praise.
    18. Mrs Margaret Thatcher, the former prime minister, plans to launch today a scathing attack on the Commission's ambitions.
    19. Mick Doyle, the former coach who writes an acerbic column in the Irish Independent, was scathing after defeat by Wales.
    20. Flynn opened the session with a scathing attack on federal spending priorities.
    21. One Globe staffer subsequently wrote a scathing column on Lotus, asserting: "The fish is rotten at the head."
    22. In a scathing letter, four influential federal judges in Manhattan criticized the department's recent move to stop the New York City bar association from evaluating judicial nominees.
    23. The Warner Bros. film, now in production, is based on Tom Wolfe's scathing best seller of the same name, which tells the story of a high-powered Wall Street executive who becomes entangled in the city's Kafkaesque court system.
    24. Racked by stock scandals and scathing press coverage that helped shrink trading activity, the exchange's seven-year-old index sank to a record low in May.
    25. The brute Hunding is not felled by Wotan's scathing gaze, but scrambles off unharmed.
    26. Leading the 101-member Non-Aligned Movement in a scathing denunciation of the top U.N. official in Namibia, black African nations have asked the world body to send 7,500 peacekeepers to the territory.
    27. Nor did the Volksoper chorus rise to the scathing precision of their music; they were indifferently co-ordinated and scatterbrained. Perhaps their focus was blunted by politeness.
    28. On all the big European agreements in recent years, we have had the same sort of difficulties with Britain.' Indirectly, Mr Mitterrand was even more scathing about Denmark.
    29. Novelist and critic Mary McCarthy, whose scathing wit and bold explorations of social mores made her one of America's preeminent literary lions, died of cancer Wednesday at the age of 77.
    30. But he is scathing about the British government's willingness to allow the Hume-Adams 'peace initiative' to become entangled with political negotiations.
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