stinging

Adjective

• (of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character
  • cutting remarks
    
  • edged satire
    
  • a stinging comment
    

Noun

• a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung
  • the sting of death
    
  • he felt the stinging of nettles
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  cutting , edged , sting