scathingly

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English

Etymology

From scathing +‎ -ly.

Adverb

scathingly (comparative more scathingly, superlative most scathingly)

  1. In a scathing manner.
    • 2006 November 2, August Brown, “Don’t get comfortable around them”, in Los Angeles Times:
      When Tim Kinsella, of the pioneering indie rock groups Cap’n Jazz and Joan of Arc, wrote a scathingly sarcastic editorial in the emo-centric magazine Alternative Press imploring every band inside to break up, Bemis bristled at Kinsella’s cynicism, calling him a “self-hating emophobe” in a letter to the magazine.