Scathing vs Pernicious - What's the difference?
scathing | pernicious |
harshly or bitterly critical
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=December 14
, author=Angelique Chrisafis
, title=Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism
, work=Guardian
harmful or painful; acerbic
Causing much harm in a subtle way.
* 1911 , ,
Causing death or injury; deadly.
As adjectives the difference between scathing and pernicious
is that scathing is harshly or bitterly critical while pernicious is causing much harm in a subtle way.As a verb scathing
is .scathing
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, page= , passage=For months, Dati warned she would refuse to stand aside. Now she has stunned the political class with an open letter to Fillon in Le Monde, a scathing character assassination accusing him of the "lone ambition" of a disillusioned political elite, of doing politics in a way that "never favoured women" and stopping ethnic-minority candidates from progressing at elections. She said he was committing "a sad mistake" in trying to run in Paris.}}
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*pernicious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Puritanism no longer employs the thumbscrew and lash; but it still has a most pernicious hold on the minds and feelings of the American people.