stinging

adj

1. Having the capacity to sting.

   “stinging nettles”

2. (figuratively)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.”

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)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.”

noun

1. The act by which someone receives a sting.

   “the stingings of scorpions”

   “stingings of remorse”