stinging
sti nging
- n a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung
he felt the stinging of nettles - v cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort
- v deliver a sting to
- v saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous
- v cause a stinging pain
- v cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging
- s (of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character
a stinging comment
- In the stinging blown sand they lay, a polyglot army: Britons, Anzacs, Indians, even some Poles and Free Frenchmen, 40,000 men at most.
- They were the stinging phrases of a prophet, a man demanding justice not just in the hereafter, but in the here and now.
- Floating, stinging, punching, prophesying, he transformed his sport and became the world's most adored athlete.