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発音

• IPA: /ˈstɪŋɪŋ/
• 韻: -ɪŋɪŋ

形容詞

stinging (comparative more stinging, superlative most stinging)

1. Having the capacity to sting.

   Synonym: smart

   stinging nettles

2. (figurative) Precise and hurtful.

   a stinging indictment of the American prison system

   • 2017 September 27, David Browne, “Hugh Hefner, 'Playboy' Founder, Dead at 91”, in Rolling Stone:

     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.

派生語

動詞

stinging

1. present participle and gerund of sting
   • 1892, James Yoxall, chapter 5, in The Lonely Pyramid:

     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.

名詞

stinging (plural stingings)

1. The act by which someone receives a sting.

   the stingings of scorpions

   stingings of remorse