Synonyms for stinging
sting·ing

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1. stinging

   Acid, sour, and bitter agree in being contrasted with sweet, but the two former are sharply distinguished from the latter. Acid or sour is the taste of vinegar or lemon-juice; bitter that of quassia, quinine, or strychnine. Acrid is nearly allied to bitter. Pungent suggests the effect of pepper or snuff on the organs of taste or smell; as, a pungent odor. Caustic indicates the corroding effect of some strong chemical, as nitrate of silver. In a figurative sense, as applied to language or character, these words are very closely allied. We say a sour face, sharp words, bitter complaints, caustic wit, cutting irony, biting sarcasm, a stinging taunt, harsh judgment, a tart reply. Harsh carries the idea of intentional and severe unkindness, bitter of a severity that arises from real or supposed ill treatment. The bitter speech springs from the sore heart. Tart and sharp utterances may not proceed from an intention to wound, but merely from a wit recklessly keen; cutting, stinging, and biting speech indicates more or less of hostile intent, the latter being the more deeply malicious. The caustic utterance is meant to burn, perhaps wholesomely, as in the satire of Juvenal or Cervantes. Compare MOROSE.

   Synonyms:
   acerb, acetous, acid, acidulated, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, biting, bitter, caustic, cutting, harsh, irate, pungent, savage, sharp, sour, tart, vinegarish, virulent

   Antonyms:
   dulcet, honeyed, luscious, nectared, saccharine, sweet

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1. sting, stingingadjective

   a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung

   "the sting of death"; "he felt the stinging of nettles"

   Synonyms:
   con game, flimflam, bunko, confidence game, sting, bunko game, gyp, bunco, pang, con, confidence trick, bunco game, insect bite, bite, hustle

   Antonyms:
   kind

2. cutting, edged, stingingadjective

   (of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character

   "cutting remarks"; "edged satire"; "a stinging comment"

   Synonyms:
   keen, piercing, edged, stabbing, knifelike, raw, cutting, lancinate, lancinating, bleak

   Antonyms:
   kind

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1. List of paraphrases for "stinging":

   irritated, damning

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How to use stinging in a sentence?

1. Emma Crofts-Wilson:

   I didn’t know what was happening. I just felt a major stinging feeling and when I looked down I saw a head.

2. Dov Hikind:

   Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has blocked me on Twitter yesterday ,apparently because my critique of her tweets and policies have been too stinging.

3. Gena Dinicola:

   It burned a lot, it stung, it feels like shooting pain and stinging. It feels like pins and needles.

4. Thomas Casale:

   The most common things we would prescribe epinephrine for is food allergies, bees, wasps and other stinging insects, the advantage of these auto-injectors is that you don't have to think about it. You just pop the cap, stick it right in your thigh, the needle comes out at the right depth into the muscle, and it delivers the correct amount of epinephrine.

5. Matt Jones:

   It's not the easiest to breathe, our eyes have definitely been stinging quite a bit, i'll be happy to get inside and get in the air conditioning. I won't be doing anything else for the rest of the day. Hopefully rest and get a good night's sleep.