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scathingly



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Lawyer and activist Raul Orduna was scathingly critical of the government's environmental policy.

From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026

They can be scathingly ironic, alert to every hypocrisy that corroborates their cynical worldview, and even seductive in a perverse, power-mad way.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2026

Colbert had previously been scathingly critical of Trump on air.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2025

The film exists as a record of time, and a scathingly accurate one at that.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2025

Much of the correspondence offered support and sympathy for those of us who had returned, but there was also an abundance of scathingly critical letters.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer



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