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    The article offers a scathing look at the proposal.
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    Loud and scathing, Draco Malfoy's voice echoed around the courtyard.†  (source)
    scathing = severely harming
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    That night Demosthenes published a scathing denunciation of the population limitation laws.†  (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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    He turned away from me, his voice scathing.†  (source)
    scathing = severely harming
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    "Your tawdry effort in The Daily World," he says scathingly.†  (source)
    scathingly = in a manner that severely harms
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    "Not if THOU canst scathe him," replied the Captain.†  (source)
    scathe = severely harm
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    And there were others its touch had scathed.†  (source)
    scathed = severely harmed
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    And this insolent peasant,—he too, I warrant me, is to be dismissed scatheless?†  (source)
    scatheless = without harm
    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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    semblance, Retrayed, drew back, Rightwise, rightly, Rivage, shore, Romed, roared, Roted, practised, Rove, cleft, Rownsepyk, a branch, Sacring, consecrating, Sad, serious, Sadly, heartily, earnestly, Salle, room, Samite, silk stuff with gold or silver threads, Sangreal, Holy Grail, Sarps, girdles, Saw, proverb, Scathes, harms, hurts, icripture, writing, Search, probe wounds, Selar, canopy, Semblable, like, Semblant, semblance, Sendal, fine cloth, Sennight, week, Servage, slavery, Sewer, officer who set on dishes and tasted them, Shaft-mon, handbreadth, Shaw, thicket, Sheef, thrust, Sheer-Thursday, Thursday in Holy Week, Shend, harm, Shenship, disgrace, Shent, undone, blamed, Shour, attack, S†  (source)
    Scathes = severely harms
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    Except for a few black marks, it's relatively unscathed.†  (source)
    unscathed = not severely harmed
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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)
    scathing = severely harming
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    Joe College,' said Weary scathingly.†  (source)
    scathingly = in a manner that severely harms
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