sting
verb (used with object)
to prick or wound with a sharp-pointed, often venom-bearing organ.
stingingly
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a word derived from
sting.
Example Sentences
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In one scene, a lifetime of heartbreak, emotional distance and hard-won resilience is captured in the simple act of receiving a stingingly careless birthday gift.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 9, 2022
By the time I hit 20, many of the girls I’d grown up with were married women, pregnant and glowing with their second child, while I felt convicted, stingingly so, for my selfishness.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2019
The characters are treated with odd touches of realism and their sophistic arguments are stingingly psychologized.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2017
Bobby’s first impressions of Pep, meanwhile, were stingingly chaste and respectful.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 9, 2016
A dull endless pain in my gut that wouldn’t go away even when I knelt on the stingingly frozen tile of the bathroom, dry-heaving.
From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green
