LekhoriLekhoriHaving the capacity to sting.
stinging nettles
Precise and hurtful.
That same year, a young Gloria Steinem went undercover as a Playboy Bunny at one of his Playboy Clubs and wrote a stinging inside critique of the magazine's ethos and chauvinism in an article, titled "A Bunny's Tale," which was published in Show magazine.
present participle and gerund of sting
The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom.[…]Drifts of yellow vapour, fiery, parching, stinging, filled the air.
The act by which someone receives a sting.
the stingings of scorpions
From Middle English styngyng; equivalent to sting + -ing.
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