scathing words

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• scathing — [[t]ske͟ɪðɪŋ[/t]] ADJ GRADED If you say that someone is being scathing about something, you mean that they are being very critical of it. The society has been particularly scathing about the planning record of West Somerset District Council... He …   English dictionary

• scathing — Synonyms and related words: acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acid, acidic, acidulent, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, astringent, biting, bitter, brutal, burning, caustic, corroding, corrosive, cutting, damaging, double edged, edged, escharotic,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• Yiddish words used by English-speaking Jews — Yiddish words may be used in a primarily English language context. An English sentence that uses these words sometimes is said to be in Yinglish, however the primary meaning of Yinglish is an anglicism used in Yiddish. This secondary sense of the …   Wikipedia

• These Being the Words of Marcus Tullius Cicero — Rome episode title= These Being the Words of Marcus Tullius Cicero caption= Cicero (left) ponders his options. season=2 (2007) episode=15 air date=January 28, 2007 (HBO) June 27, 2007 (BBC)| writer=Scott Buck director=Alan Poul setting=Rome time… …   Wikipedia

• John of Sahagún — Infobox Saint name=Saint John of Sahagún birth date=1419 death date=June 11, 1479 feast day= June 12 venerated in=Roman Catholic Church imagesize= caption= birth place=Sahagún, Province of Leon, Kingdom of Castile, Spain death place=Salamanca,… …   Wikipedia

• Battle of Myriokephalon — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Battle of Myriokephalon caption=Emperor Manuel I Komnenos partof=the Byzantine Seljuk wars date=September 17, 1176 place=Near Lake Beyşehir, TurkeyTreadgold, p. 635] result=Seljuk Defensive Strategic victory… …   Wikipedia

• abuse — abusable /euh byooh zeuh beuhl/, adj. abuser, n. v. /euh byoohz /; n. /euh byoohs /, v., abused, abusing, n. v.t. 1. to use wrongly or improperly; misuse: to abuse one s authority. 2. to treat in a harmful, injurious, or offensive way: to abuse a …   Universalium

• Saint John of Sahagun —     St. John of Sahagun     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► St. John of Sahagun     Hermit, b. 1419, at Sahagun (or San Fagondez) in the Kingdom of Leon, in Spain; d. 11 June, 1479, at Salamanca; feast 12 June. In art he is represented holding a… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• abuse — a•buse v. [[t]əˈbyuz[/t]] n. [[t]əˈbyus[/t]] v. a•bused, a•bus•ing, n. 1) to use wrongly or improperly; misuse: to abuse one s authority[/ex] 2) to treat in a harmful or injurious way: to abuse a horse; to abuse one s eyesight[/ex] 3) to speak… …   From formal English to slang

• Nahum — (flourished late seventh century b.c.)    A resident of the Hebrew kingdom of Judah and a minor Hebrew prophet who penned a short narrative that later became one of the books of the old Testament. Nahum s narrative consists of his account of the… …   Ancient Mesopotamia dictioary

• literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …   Universalium