Thesaurus / stinging
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There was a cold, stinging contempt in Varney's tones by no means lost on the listener.
THE WEIGHT OF THE CROWNFRED M. WHITEHere the love of the cow or the country is a vague thing intended to satisfy one's vanity, or soothe a stinging conscience.
THIRD CLASS IN INDIAN RAILWAYSMAHATMA GANDHI“Abstinence has its drawbacks,” he said, shivering in the bitter wind which whirled the stinging smoke about them.
THE GOLD TRAILHAROLD BINDLOSSThe nurse hurried forward, and Corydon felt a stinging sensation in her side, and then a delightful numbness crept over her.
LOVE'S PILGRIMAGEUPTON SINCLAIRUpward through the stinging blast of the tempest they went, toward the top of a stricken world.
THE WHITE DESERTCOURTNEY RYLEY COOPERHe saw beneath him a descent of some ten feet, and at the bottom a dense bed of stinging nettles.
JACK HARKAWAY'S BOY TINKER AMONG THE TURKSBRACEBRIDGE HEMYNGIf this be true, it was a stinging rebuke and one which touched the heart of the whole matter.
THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTEWILLIAM MILLIGAN SLOANEA yell rose from the natives, which the remaining Dutch promptly answered with a stinging volley.
THE ARGUS PHEASANTJOHN CHARLES BEECHAMRemember that once I vowed to cut from your mouth your stinging tongue?
FRANK MERRIWELL'S PURSUITBURT L. STANDISHThey had literally settled on his head and were stinging him furiously.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF FRANK G. ALLEN, MINISTER OF THE GOSPELFRANK G. ALLENWORDS RELATED TO STINGING
- afflictive
- annoying
- bad
- brutal
- calamitous
- cruel
- dire
- disagreeable
- displeasing
- distasteful
- disturbing
- galling
- grievous
- hard
- harsh
- heartbreaking
- hurtful
- inclement
- intemperate
- intense
- merciless
- offensive
- poignant
- provoking
- rigorous
- rugged
- ruthless
- savage
- severe
- sharp
- stinging
- unpalatable
- unpleasant
- vexatious
- woeful
- Siberian
- algid
- arctic
- below freezing
- below zero
- benumbed
- biting
- bitter
- blasting
- bleak
- boreal
- brisk
- brumal
- chill
- chilled
- cool
- crisp
- cutting
- frigid
- frore
- frosty
- frozen
- gelid
- glacial
- have goose bumps
- hawkish
- hiemal
- hyperborean
- icebox
- iced
- icy
- inclement
- intense
- keen
- nipping
- nippy
- numbed
- numbing
- one-dog night
- penetrating
- piercing
- polar
- raw
- rimy
- severe
- sharp
- shivery
- sleety
- snappy
- snowy
- stinging
- two-dog night
- wintry
- Siberian
- algid
- arctic
- below freezing
- below zero
- benumbed
- biting
- bitter
- blasting
- bleak
- boreal
- brisk
- brumal
- chill
- chilled
- cool
- crisp
- cutting
- frigid
- frore
- frosty
- frozen
- gelid
- glacial
- have goose bumps
- hawkish
- hiemal
- hyperborean
- icebox
- iced
- icy
- inclement
- intense
- keen
- nipping
- nippy
- numbed
- numbing
- one-dog night
- penetrating
- piercing
- polar
- raw
- rimy
- severe
- sharp
- shivery
- sleety
- snappy
- snowy
- stinging
- two-dog night
- wintry
- acute
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- all-consuming
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- biting
- bitter
- burning
- close
- concentrated
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- cutting
- deep
- diligent
- eager
- earnest
- energetic
- exaggerated
- exceptional
- excessive
- exquisite
- extraordinary
- extreme
- fanatical
- fervent
- fervid
- fierce
- forcible
- full
- great
- hard
- harsh
- heightened
- impassioned
- intensified
- intensive
- keen
- marked
- piercing
- powerful
- profound
- protracted
- pungent
- sharp
- shrill
- stinging
- strained
- strong
- supreme
- undue
- vehement
- violent
- vivid
- zealous
- aciculate
- acuate
- acuminate
- acuminous
- acute
- apical
- barbed
- briery
- cuspate
- cuspidate
- edged
- fine
- gnawing
- ground fine
- honed
- horned
- jagged
- keen
- keen-edged
- knife-edged
- lancinating
- needle-pointed
- needlelike
- peaked
- piercing
- pointed
- pointy
- prickly
- pronged
- razor-sharp
- salient
- serrated
- sharp-edged
- sharpened
- shooting
- spiked
- spiky
- spiny
- splintery
- stabbing
- stinging
- tapered
- tapering
- thorny
- tined
- tipped
- unblunted
- whetted
- aciculate
- acuate
- acuminate
- acuminous
- acute
- apical
- barbed
- briery
- cuspate
- cuspidate
- edged
- fine
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- ground fine
- honed
- horned
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- knife-edged
- knifelike
- needle-pointed
- needlelike
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- piercing
- pointed
- pointy
- prickly
- pronged
- razor-sharp
- salient
- serrated
- sharp-edged
- sharpened
- shooting
- spiked
- spiky
- spiny
- splintery
- stabbing
- stinging
- tapered
- tapering
- thorny
- tined
- tipped
- unblunted
- whetted
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