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noun • aggravation by deriding or mocking or criticizing verb • harass with persistent criticism or carping | ||||||||
| 42% | 5 | A hurt inflicted by an ant, bee, jellyfish, nettle, wasp etc; by extension, pain caused by wounding words; or, the point of an epigram | ||||||
noun • a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung • a mental pain or distress • a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin • a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property • operation designed to catch a person committing a criminal act verb • cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort • deliver a sting to • saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous • cause a stinging pain • cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging | ||||||||
| 41% | 4 | A jag of an arrow or a fish-hook; a beard-like filament of a cyprinid; a harl or ramus of a feather’s vane; or, a pointed or wounding remark | ||||||
noun • an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect • the pointed part of barbed wire • a subsidiary point facing opposite from the main point that makes an arrowhead or spear hard to remove • one of the parallel filaments projecting from the main shaft of a feather verb • provide with barbs | ||||||||
Wounding Remark Finally Hurt Relative Crossword Clue
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TAUNT which was last seen in the The Guardian Cryptic crossword.
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TAUNT
Updated: October 14, 2023
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1 | A hurt inflicted by an ant, bee, jellyfish, nettle, wasp etc; by extension, pain caused by wounding words; or, the point of an epigram
Telegraph Giant General Knowledge -
10 Jun 2023 | Telegraph Giant General Knowledge / 10 Jun 2023 |
2 | A jag of an arrow or a fish-hook; a beard-like filament of a cyprinid; a harl or ramus of a feather’s vane; or, a pointed or wounding remark
Telegraph Giant General Knowledge -
03 Jun 2023 | Telegraph Giant General Knowledge / 03 Jun 2023 |
3 | Playful remark or witty remark | |
4 | Popular panel may be wounding
The Guardian Cryptic -
15 Jul 2014 | The Guardian Cryptic / 15 Jul 2014 |
5 | Wounding criticism | |
6 | Wounding jibe
The Guardian Quick -
22 Aug 2014 | The Guardian Quick / 22 Aug 2014 |
7 | Wounding remark
The Guardian Quick -
13 Dec 2004 | The Guardian Quick / 13 Dec 2004 |
