Josh Gad

Melissa McCarthy just opened this new movie, 'Identity Thief,' and Rex Reed, who's a known critic, wrote a scathing commentary on her weight. I think that weight designation is one of the last frontiers of bullying. I don't know what the right 'ism' for it is, but I think that there's a level of that that's happening that's certainly not okay.

American Actor

Linda Colley

In the past, Britons were scathing about the cruelties of the old Roman empire and the excesses of Catholic empire builders such as the Spanish and the French. They convinced themselves that their empire was different and benign because it rested on sea power and trade rather than on armies.

British Historian

Bjorn Lomborg

A review was published in Nature, very scathing, essentially calling me incompetent, though they didn't use that word. I am putting a reply on my Web site in a few days, where I go through their arguments, paragraph by paragraph.

Danish Scientist

Tina Fey

I was the editor of the school newspaper and in drama club and choir, so I was not a popular girl in the traditional sense, but I think I was known for being relatively scathing.

American Comedian

Urban Meyer

When a guy would write some scathing article about me, that used to really bother me. I didn't get it. I'm like, What is that? You don't know me... That ate me up.

American Coach

Ted Dwane

It's strange to think about the scathing reviews 'Sigh No More' got and then consider that we could win best album a year or so later.

British Musician

Helen Mirren

I prefer the finesse of French humour. English humour is more scathing, more cruel, as illustrated by Monty Python and Little Britain.

British Actress

Patrick Stump

I write really scathing, angry stuff when I'm in a better mood, and then uplifting and happy stuff when I'm at the absolute bottom.

American Musician

Astro Teller

Really great entrepreneurs have this very special mix of unstoppable optimism and scathing paranoia.

English Scientist

Robert Dallek

Harry Truman wrote scathing letters, but he almost never sent them.

American Historian

Indicates a very negative response, often stronger than just criticism or disapproval.

Negative Tone

Used for emphasizing the severe intensity of the critique or comment.

Intensity Emphasized

The criticized party might feel emotionally affected due to the cruel nature of the comments.

Emotional Impact

 When the Medici family seized power, he not only lost his position, but was even tortured and banished. With this in mind, it’s possible to read the pamphlet he wrote from exile not as a defense of princely rule, but a scathing description of how it operates.

What “Machiavellian”...

 is positively scathing about our preoccupation with matter itself. We have this tendency to think that only solid, material things are really things at all. Waves of electromagnetic fluctuation in a vacuum seem unreal.

Scathing