Scathing

We were surprised to hear him make such scathing remarks about his best friend.

Her scathing putdown made it clear what she thought of his comments.

Tom was unprepared for the scathing criticism meted out to him by his boss.

Tom wrote a scathing review of Mary's book.

Tom opened a new organic wine and wrote a scathing review about it online.

I ignored Tom's scathing remark.

Tom's speech was full of scathing sarcasm.

He behaved, unconsciously, in ways that sometimes inspired sharp criticism and scathing rebukes.

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.