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She was scathing about the BBC's decision in 2016 to bring back Keeping Up Appearances, but this time set in the 1950s and featuring a younger version of her character.

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She continues to settle scores on Father Figure - the scathing story of a backstabbing protégé, that interpolates the George Michael classic of the same name.

From BBC

Goal machine Erling Haaland continued his scintillating scoring form by scoring both of City's goals, but was scathing in his assessment of the performance.

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It wasn’t “a reasoned argument,” Mahan wrote in a scathing opinion piece in the San Francisco Standard.

The Carbuncle Awards, run by architecture magazine Urban Realm, were inspired by a scathing comment about modern building design made by King Charles back in the 1980s.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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