scathes

(Okay, I'll cop to it: I get a chuckle out her when she scathes the current occupant of the Oval Office and his chums ...)

Peter Clothier: Language, Political Discourse, & the Scathing Comment 2008

But all this scathes me nought; first, because thy shaft missed me; second, because thy legs failed thee

The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

He ` s Joe Francis, the millionaire creator of the "Girls Gone Wild" video series, which features scathes of young women going wild.

CNN Transcript May 15, 2007 2007

VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Reid to slam Bush in pre-emptive strike ahead of State of the Union'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'In a pre-emptive broadside on President Bush in advance of his State of the Union address, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) will slash Bush\'s presidency and compare the array of festering ethics scandals in Congress to Watergate -- Ho Hum ... another scathing attack that really scathes no one!!'

OpEdNews - Quicklink: Reid to slam Bush in pre-emptive strike ahead of State of the Union 2006

In a pre-emptive broadside on President Bush in advance of his State of the Union address, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) will slash Bush's presidency and compare the array of festering ethics scandals in Congress to Watergate -- Ho Hum ... another scathing attack that really scathes no one!!

OpEdNews - Quicklink: Reid to slam Bush in pre-emptive strike ahead of State of the Union 2006

When Macbeth had murdered sleep, when he could not screw his courage to the sticking-point, when his purpose looked green and pale, his wife stings him with taunts, scathes him with sarcasm, and by her own energy of intellect and storm of will arouses him to action.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 Various

This feeling falls upon him like a thunderbolt, and scathes his heart.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864 Various

"The coal-black eye, that mocks the coal-black veil?" that pleasant lightning which warms, but scathes not.

Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833 John Auldjo

The warm defender of the sacredness of the family relation is the same that scathes whole families -- sundering husbands and wives, parents and children, sisters and brothers -- leaving the hut vacant, and the hearth desolate.

Uncle Tom's Companions: Or, Facts Stranger Than Fiction. A Supplement to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Being Startling Incidents in the Lives of Celebrated Fugitive Slaves. 1911

The cup of earthly love, even the noblest, is often dipped in Pyriphlegethon, and the draught it offers scathes the palate until its finest sensibility is for ever dulled.

Apologia Diffidentis 1905