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Scathing vs Swingeing - What's the difference?

scathing | swingeing |

As adjectives the difference between scathing and swingeing

is that scathing is harshly or bitterly critical while swingeing is large, immense.

As verbs the difference between scathing and swingeing

is that scathing is present participle of lang=en while swingeing is present participle of lang=en.

scathing

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • 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 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.}}
  • harmful or painful; acerbic

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Anagrams

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    swingeing

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (archaic)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (British) large, immense
  • powerful, scathing (a swingeing verbal attack )
  • * The Economist , June 16th 2012. "Special Report: The melting north", p. 4.
    • Perhaps not since the felling of America's vast forests ... has the world seen such a spectacular environmental change. The consequences for Arctic ecosystems will be swingeing .

    Synonyms

    * whopping