Usually means: Causing harm through harsh criticism.
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  2. scathful: Wiktionary
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  4. Scathful: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  5. scathful: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  6. Scathful: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. scathful: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  8. scathful: FreeDictionary.org
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▸ adjective:  Alternative form of scatheful. [(archaic) Causing harm or mischief; destructive, injurious.]

Similar:
scathely, scatheful, maleficial, damageous, baneful, harmefull, scelerous, nefast, harmfull, curseful, more...

Opposite:
praising, complimentary, laudatory, approving

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Similar:
scathely, scatheful, maleficial, damageous, baneful, harmefull, scelerous, nefast, harmfull, curseful, more...

Opposite:
praising, complimentary, laudatory, approving



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