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			| 1.
								causing or experiencing a painful shivering feeling as from many tiny pricks the stinging windblown sleet
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								(of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character
 a stinging comment
 
 'stinging' - used as a noun
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								a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung
 he felt the stinging of nettles
 
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