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scathing
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    He gave Guyard Morrigen and Bryce Caron a scathing look.†  (source)
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    She remembered her mother's scathing words.†  (source)
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    She flicked a scathing gaze in Nadine's direction.†  (source)
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    I cant imagine anyone emerging from the Erudite unscathed, though Will seems all right.  (source)
    unscathed = not severely harmed
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unscathed means not and reverses the meaning of scathed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    When he goes back to people watching, she shoots me one last scathing look and leaves.†  (source)
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    Joe College,' said Weary scathingly.†  (source)
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    I was in my own room as usual — just myself, without obvious change: nothing had smitten me, or scathed me, or maimed me.†  (source)
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    "Not if THOU canst scathe him," replied the Captain.†  (source)
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    Then they of Elias' party departed, and King Mark took of them many prisoners, to redress the harms and the scathes that he had of them; and the remnant he sent into their country to borrow out their fellows.†  (source)
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    And this insolent peasant,—he too, I warrant me, is to be dismissed scatheless?†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-less" in scatheless means without and reverses the meaning of scathe. This is the same pattern you see in words like harmless, fearless, and powerless.
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    Except for a few black marks, it's relatively unscathed.†  (source)
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    He wrote a scathing letter published in the state bar association's journal in which he vowed "never to take another death penalty case, even if they disbar me for my refusal" and urged other civil lawyers not to take death penalty cases.†  (source)
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    The answer is "Maybe you got tired!" delivered as scathingly as possible; but it doesn't scathe.†  (source)
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