"stinging" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a sensation of pain, such as when a bee stings you or when you feel a sharp, burning sensation. For example, "The stinging sensation of the bee sting made me jump."
Even during the tense climax, he keeps things light, combining smiley walkout with stinging kicker: "It's getting a little Diane Sawyer in here," referencing the famously intrusive interviewer.
At Kinross High in Perthshire, some parents received a stinging note telling them: "The length of your daughter's skirt is such that she spends a great deal of time pulling it down.
They might be hieroglyphs, frenzied maenads or black serpents with men's heads and menacing tongues – for stinging, perhaps, for uttering untruths, for screaming fury.
Related: Ukrainian soldiers share horrors of Debaltseve battle after stinging defeat "Guys are running out on foot through the fields because [rebels] are shelling vehicles.
The head of Shell has launched a stinging attack on increasingly vocal critics who are calling for fossil fuels to be left in the ground, accusing them of peddling naive and impractical solutions to climate change.
Hungary's strongman prime minister, Viktor Orbán, delivered a stinging broadside against Brussels on Thursday, likening EU bureaucracy to Soviet tyranny and casting himself in the mould of Hungarian heroes fighting to free the country from foreign domination since the 19th century.
They were taken to task by Stephen Fitzpatrick, the chief executive of small supplier Ovo Energy, who launched a stinging attack on his larger rivals for being "the best filibusters in the business" when it comes to revealing how they make their money.
Related: Ukrainian soldiers share horrors of Debaltseve battle after stinging defeat He said there was a "real and present danger" that such tactics could be used.
As I sat there with the words 'mail order bride orgy' flashing at the back of my mind, we drank countless shots of neat apple-flavoured vodka that made hot stinging arcs of bile shoot into the back of my throat without warning.
Imagine a stinging nettle on steroids.
