: having the power to bite
a biting wind
especially
: able to grip and impress deeply
a biting wit
Examples of biting in a Sentence
a biting wind that only the toughest football fans were willing to endure
the biting comments by the pundits about the government's inaction
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The socially biting comedy comes out at a time of political unrest in Argentina under Javier Milei’s presidency, a government marked by several funding cuts to culture.
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Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 6 Aug. 2025
No one mentioned the annoying swarms of tiny biting midges that plague Scotland’s west coast in the summer.
—Angus MacKinnon, CNN Money, 3 Aug. 2025
To this day a lively, biting, macabre comedy that was controversial in its time (and banned in Franco-era Spain for its anti-elite subtext), yet its core themes still resonate with uncanny oracular power.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 29 July 2025
In this biting novel, a fiercely independent young woman named Girlie works as a content moderator for a virtual-reality platform, Playground, that is at once a game-like diversion and an immersive therapeutic tool.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
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Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 6 Aug. 2025
No one mentioned the annoying swarms of tiny biting midges that plague Scotland’s west coast in the summer.
—Angus MacKinnon, CNN Money, 3 Aug. 2025
To this day a lively, biting, macabre comedy that was controversial in its time (and banned in Franco-era Spain for its anti-elite subtext), yet its core themes still resonate with uncanny oracular power.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 29 July 2025
In this biting novel, a fiercely independent young woman named Girlie works as a content moderator for a virtual-reality platform, Playground, that is at once a game-like diversion and an immersive therapeutic tool.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for biting
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“Biting.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/biting. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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