scathingly

Example Sentences

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They can be scathingly ironic, alert to every hypocrisy that corroborates their cynical worldview, and even seductive in a perverse, power-mad way.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2026

Colbert had previously been scathingly critical of Trump on air.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 3, 2025

Similar promises came from Nigeria's Housing Minister, Ahmed Dangiwa, who spoke scathingly of "unscrupulous" individuals whose actions he said had resulted in the Jos school collapse and caused unquantifiable loss.

From BBC • Jul. 17, 2024

But in a series of surreptitiously recorded interviews in 2018 and 2019 with a niece, Mary Trump, she spoke scathingly of him.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 17, 2023

“Twitchy little ferret, aren’t you, Malfoy?” said Hermione scathingly, and she, Harry, and Ron went up the marble staircase laughing heartily.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling