The phrase 'stinging satire' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a type of biting humor used to criticize behavior or beliefs. For example: The author's stinging satire raised public awareness of the issue.
"As Emir Kusturica demonstrated with 'Underground,' " Janet Maslin wrote in The New York Times, "the anguish in the Balkans may be better conveyed through raucous, stinging satire than by more conventionally compassionate means".
Earlier this year, Mr. Norris's stinging satire picked up the Olivier Award for Best Play.
Sympathy for the victim is matched by Penhall's stinging satire on the arrogant assurance of professionalism.
It is a "stinging satire of English social and political mores," said Garden Wren, this production's director.
The next year he joined MGM, where he oversaw "Network" (1976), a stinging satire of commercial television, and was credited with reviving the studio's sagging fortunes.
Alongside the idealized love story, however, is a stinging satire of all classes of English society -- the socially ambitious and the naïve country bumpkin, the fop and the bluestocking, the violent male and the preening, empty-headed female: "Tom Jones" without the prurience and from a woman's point of view.
But Schine's homage has it all: stinging social satire, mordant wit, delicate charm, lilting language and cosseting materialistic detail.
She and her artistic sisters, like Jesusa Rodríguez and Liliana Felipe, who run their own theater in Mexico City, El Hábito, have been working since the 1980's to destroy the old order by mocking it with songs, satire and stinging images.
Some of these carry the sting of satire, especially those that you suspect are close to the literal truth.
Neither the analysis of a great scientific populariser (Mr Liberman) nor reach of Buzzfeed (130m monthly users) nor the sting of satire (of which Mr Colbert is a virtuoso) can defeat confirmation bias.
"We were always afraid, and when we started, there were always problems with the military, because we use satire and humor as stinging weapons of truth," Mr. Youssef said via a Skype call from Cairo.
