scalding

Adj.

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scalding - marked by harshly abusive criticism; "his scathing remarks about silly lady novelists"; "her vituperative railing" Synonyms: scathing, vituperative, blistering

baking, blistering, boiling, broiling, burning hot, canicular, ebullient, feverish, flushed, grilling, heated, hot as fire, hot as hell, like a furnace, like an oven, overheated, overwarm, parching, piping hot, red-hot, roasting, searing, seething, simmering, sizzling, sizzling hot, smoking hot, sudorific, sweating, sweaty, sweltering, sweltry, toasting, white-hot