stabbing

Adjective

• painful as if caused by a sharp instrument
  • a cutting wind
    
  • keen winds
    
  • knifelike cold
    
  • piercing knifelike pains
    
  • piercing cold
    
  • piercing criticism
    
  • a stabbing pain
    
  • lancinating pain
    

• causing physical or especially psychological injury
  • a stabbing remark
    
  • wounding and false charges of disloyalty
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  cutting , keen , knifelike , piercing , lancinate , lancinating , wounding