stinging

Having the capacity to sting.

stinging nettles

Precise and hurtful.

That same year, a young Gloria Steinem went undercover as a Playboy Bunny at one of his Playboy Clubs and wrote a stinging inside critique of the magazine's ethos and chauvinism in an article, titled "A Bunny's Tale," which was published in Show magazine.

The act by which someone receives a sting.

the stingings of scorpions

stingings of remorse