What is another word for sting?
1324 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ stˈɪŋ], [ stˈɪŋ], [ s_t_ˈɪ_ŋ]
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Similar words for sting:
- other relevant words (adjective)
- Bunco Game (noun)
- acute pain (noun)
- bite (noun)
- bunko (noun)
- bunko game (noun)
- burglary (noun)
- cheat (noun)
- collusion (noun)
- confidence game (noun)
- con game (noun)
- deception (noun)
- edge (noun)
- flimflam (noun)
- fraud (noun)
- gyp (noun)
- heist (noun)
- hustle (noun)
- injury (noun)
- insect bite (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- pain (noun)
- scam (noun)
- sharpness (noun)
- stimulus (noun)
- swindle (noun)
- taste (noun)
- trickery (noun)
- bite (verb)
- communication (verb)
- extort (verb)
- goad (verb)
- hoax (verb)
- hurt (verb)
- injure (verb)
- irritate (verb)
- needle (verb)
- nettle (verb)
- offend (verb)
- other relevant words (verb)
- pain (verb)
- pique (verb)
- prick, pain (verb)
- short-change (verb)
- smart (verb)
- swindle (verb)
- tingle (verb)
- victimize (verb)
- welsh (verb)
- wound (verb)
- other synonyms
- injure
- irritate
- needle
- other relevant words
- pain
- short-change
- victimize
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Sting:
adj.
• Other relevant words: (adjective)n.
• Bunco Game (noun)-
•
- gull,
- ignite,
- honest,
- trim,
- awaken,
- provoke,
- rouse,
- affect,
- rook,
- invoke,
- touch,
- have,
- inspire,
- arouse.
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- checkpoint,
- all-points bulletin,
- clampdown,
- APB,
- clean up,
- clue,
- Amber alert,
- check,
- agent provocateur.
-
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- bargain,
- Capping,
- appraise,
- beat down,
- bottom out,
- bounce back,
- cap,
- cheapen.
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- misty-eyed,
- tear,
- teardrop,
- weeping,
- cry,
- weepy,
- tearful,
- dry your eyes,
- misty,
- bring tears to your eyes.
- thievings,
- breaking entering,
- filchings,
- breakin,
- second-story works,
- safecrackings,
- second story work,
- secondstory work,
- owl jobs,
- secondstory works,
- housebreakings,
- second story works.
- buncos,
- bamboozlements,
- hankypanky,
- puton,
- bill goods,
- shady deals,
- hoaxings,
- cozenings,
- fast ones,
- doubledealing,
- fast shuffles.
- bait and switches,
- bait and switch,
- bait switch,
- bait switches,
- guiltinesses,
- diddlings,
- fradulent artifices.
- dupings,
- hoodwinkings,
- hocus pocus,
- mis-representations,
- duperies,
- mis-representation,
- song dance,
- barratries,
- sharp practices,
- mis representations,
- swindlings,
- fourberies,
- mis representation,
- fraudulences.
- gyp.
- five-finger discounts,
- five finger discount,
- fivefinger discounts,
- five finger discounts,
- fivefinger discount.
- dis services,
- mis chiefs,
- mis chief,
- out-rages,
- dis service,
- de-formations,
- de formations,
- out rages,
- in jury,
- in-juries,
- in dignities,
- de formation,
- in-dignities,
- in justices,
- in-justice,
- in-jury,
- in dignity,
- out-rage,
- de-formation,
- in juries,
- in-dignity,
- dis-service,
- dis-services.
- heist,
- safecracking,
- larceny,
- BADS,
- fraud,
- ripoff,
- confidence game,
- dirty trick,
- frame up,
- five-finger discount,
- turn-on,
- cover up,
- guiltiness,
- burglary,
- scam,
- propellant,
- Stimulator,
- shooting pain,
- Hocuspocus,
- booboos,
- jazz,
- run around,
- stimulus,
- Double dealing,
- bite,
- owl job,
- housebreaking,
- scar,
- funny business,
- service,
- injury,
- pain,
- second-story work,
- cheat,
- taste,
- Hanky Panky,
- double-dealing,
- frame-up,
- boo-boos,
- swindle,
- zap,
- frame-ups,
- victimization,
- fradulent artifice,
- mutilations,
- propellants,
- tooth marks,
- fast one,
- sharp pain,
- Knaveries,
- knavery,
- double cross,
- pang,
- acute pain,
- razzle-dazzle,
- bamboozlement,
- humbug,
- bunco,
- collusion,
- trickery,
- deformations,
- Barratry,
- sharp practice,
- sell,
- jives,
- deception,
- doublecross,
- mutilation,
- jive,
- darting pain,
- shot in the arm,
- turn-ons,
- incitation,
- shady deal,
- booboo,
- dupery,
- Flam,
- boo-boo,
- deformation,
- fraudulence,
- thieving,
- eye-openers,
- fourberie,
- fast shuffle,
- grift.
v.
• bite (verb)- de composes,
- dis solves,
- dis-solves,
- eats into,
- de-composing,
- de composed,
- de compose,
- dis-solve,
- eat in to,
- dis-solving,
- de cays,
- dis solve,
- ate in to,
- eating in to,
- de-compose,
- de composing,
- dis solved,
- dis solving,
- de-cay,
- de-composes,
- de-composed,
- eats in to,
- wore away,
- de cay,
- eating into,
- de-cays,
- dis-solved.
- ex-acting,
- ex tract,
- makes pay through nose,
- putting arm on,
- ex acts,
- shakes down,
- ex-tort,
- ex act,
- puts the arm on,
- ex acting,
- pulls ones leg,
- ex torts,
- ex tort,
- ex-acted,
- ex-tracts,
- ex-act,
- putting screws to,
- shook down,
- shaking down,
- ex-tract,
- pull one leg,
- pulled one's leg,
- puts screws to,
- pulls one leg,
- putting the arm on,
- pulling one leg,
- pulls one's leg,
- making pay through nose,
- pulled leg,
- pull ones leg,
- pulled ones leg,
- ex-torts,
- put arm on,
- made pay through nose,
- pulling leg,
- pulling ones leg,
- pulls leg,
- puts arm on,
- pulled one leg.
- ex-cite,
- puts to,
- ex cited,
- keys up,
- in spirit,
- in spirited,
- in-spiriting,
- in-spirited,
- putting to,
- in spiriting,
- in-spirit,
- siccing,
- ex-cited,
- ex cite,
- ex citing,
- ex cites,
- in-spirits,
- puts up to,
- putting up to,
- firing up,
- ex-cites,
- keying up.
- run game on,
- de lude,
- took for a ride,
- de ludes,
- runs game on,
- takes for a ride,
- playing games with,
- runs a game on,
- played games with,
- takes for ride,
- fakes out,
- murphying,
- took for ride,
- running a game on,
- ran a game on,
- running game on,
- de-lude,
- de-ludes,
- murphies.
- dis comfit,
- art sore,
- dost violence,
- thumbing nose at,
- dis-commodes,
- cuts to the quick,
- dis-pleases,
- up-setting,
- doing violence,
- are sore,
- cutting the quick,
- doeth violence,
- dis pleasing,
- ex cruciate,
- did violence,
- leaned on,
- wracking up,
- hitting where one lives,
- were tender,
- were sore,
- cuts quick,
- cuts the quick,
- lays a bad trip on,
- hits where lives,
- does violence,
- leans on,
- was tender,
- laying bad trip on,
- up-sets,
- dis-commode,
- are tender,
- lay bad trip on,
- hits where one lives,
- up setting,
- dis comfits,
- thumbs nose at,
- dis-tress,
- dis pleases,
- dis-tressed,
- wert sore,
- cutting quick,
- cutting to quick,
- wrought over,
- wast sore,
- being sore,
- dis-pleased,
- being tender,
- lays bad trip on,
- didst violence,
- cut to quick,
- ex-cruciate,
- wert tender,
- up sets,
- gives no quarter,
- dis tress,
- am sore,
- is sore,
- hitting where lives,
- dis-comfits,
- cuts to quick,
- dis please,
- dis commodes,
- wracks up,
- gave no quarter,
- is tender,
- dis tressed,
- doest violence,
- cut quick,
- laid a bad trip on,
- dis-please,
- zinged,
- up-set,
- works over,
- wracked up,
- thumbed nose at,
- wast tender,
- leant on,
- dis pleased,
- goes for jugular,
- dis commode,
- dis-tresses,
- art tender,
- went for jugular,
- doth violence,
- giving no quarter,
- cut the quick,
- am tender,
- dis-comfit,
- going for jugular,
- dis-pleasing,
- dis tresses,
- cutting to the quick.
- under mining,
- de forms,
- de-formed,
- de faced,
- de-facing,
- under-mined,
- de-forms,
- de-form,
- dis torts,
- dis-tort,
- de facing,
- dis-figures,
- dis-figure,
- dis figure,
- dis tort,
- under mined,
- under-mining,
- draws blood,
- drew blood,
- de face,
- dis-torts,
- dis figuring,
- drawing blood,
- hacked up,
- de forming,
- hacks up,
- dis figures,
- de-forming,
- DE Form,
- de formed,
- de-faces,
- de faces,
- dis-figured,
- hacking up,
- dis-figuring,
- de-face,
- de-faced,
- dis figured.
- be deviling,
- be devilled,
- be deviled,
- be devil,
- be-devilled,
- be-devil,
- be-deviled,
- be-devilling,
- be devils,
- be-devils,
- be devilling,
- be-deviling.
- dis-gusted,
- ex-asperated,
- in cense,
- ex-asperates,
- dis-gust,
- in censed,
- in-censes,
- ex asperating,
- dis gust,
- ex asperates,
- ex asperate,
- snitting,
- in-censed,
- dis-gusts,
- snitted,
- dis gusted,
- ex-asperating,
- in-censing,
- dis gusting,
- in-cense,
- dis gusts,
- in censes,
- dis-gusting,
- ex-asperate.
- dis obliges,
- am disagreeable,
- dis obliged,
- dis-obliges,
- is disagreeable,
- wast disagreeable,
- dis obliging,
- re pulses,
- out-raged,
- out raged,
- out-raging,
- dis-oblige,
- dis oblige,
- dis-obliging,
- re pulsed,
- art disagreeable,
- turns one off,
- dis-obliged,
- are disagreeable,
- turning one off,
- being disagreeable,
- were disagreeable,
- re-pulses,
- re-pulsing,
- wert disagreeable,
- re-pulsed,
- was disagreeable,
- re pulsing,
- turned one off.
- gets a rise out of,
- got rise out of,
- got a rise out of,
- making waves,
- get rise out of,
- gave the business,
- gat rise out of,
- gotten a rise out of,
- gives a hard time,
- giving business,
- getting rise out of,
- gat a rise out of,
- gives hard time,
- gives business,
- giving the business,
- giving hard time,
- give business,
- gotten rise out of,
- gave a hard time,
- give hard time,
- gives the business,
- gets rise out of,
- getting a rise out of.
- skimmed top,
- short change,
- skims the top,
- shortweighted,
- skimming top,
- skims off the top,
- skimmed off top,
- skimming the top,
- skimmed off the top,
- skims off top,
- skim off top,
- skim top,
- skims top,
- skimming off the top,
- skimmed the top,
- skimming off top,
- shortweighting,
- shortweights,
- skim the top.
- art painful,
- were painful,
- being painful,
- wast painful,
- is painful,
- was painful,
- wert painful,
- are painful,
- am painful.
- over-charge,
- over-charges,
- de fraud,
- selling a bill goods,
- de-frauds,
- puts one over on,
- sold bill of goods,
- over-charging,
- taking to the cleaners,
- taking the cleaners,
- pulled fast one,
- sells a bill goods,
- pulls a fast one,
- over charging,
- takes to cleaners,
- taking cleaners,
- de frauds,
- took to the cleaners,
- sold a bill goods,
- pulling fast one,
- selling bill of goods,
- takes to the cleaners,
- pulling a fast one,
- sold a bill of goods,
- took the cleaners,
- pulls fast one,
- taking to cleaners,
- took to cleaners,
- pulled a fast one,
- over charge,
- over charged,
- sell bill of goods,
- sold bill goods,
- selling bill goods,
- takes the cleaners,
- stiffing,
- over charges,
- putting one over on,
- takes cleaners,
- de-fraud,
- sells bill of goods,
- take cleaners,
- over-charged.
- getting excited,
- got excited,
- gets excited,
- gat excited,
- hast goose bumps,
- haddest goose bumps,
- hadst goose bumps,
- hath goose bumps,
- had goose bumps,
- having goose bumps,
- gotten excited,
- has goose bumps.
- haddest in for,
- had it for,
- hadst it in for,
- pigeoned,
- discriminating against,
- roping in,
- haddest it for,
- have in for,
- having it in for,
- discriminates against,
- have it for,
- had in for,
- had for,
- haddest for,
- hadst in for,
- had it in for,
- pigeoning,
- stacking the deck,
- stacked the deck,
- hadst for,
- has for,
- hast for,
- having it for,
- hath it for,
- ropes in,
- hast it in for,
- stacks the deck,
- stacks deck,
- has it for,
- has in for,
- hast in for,
- haddest it in for,
- having for,
- hadst it for,
- hast it for,
- hath for,
- hath in for,
- having in for,
- has it in for.
- worming way out of,
- wormed way out of,
- worm ones way out of,
- worm way out of,
- beats around bush,
- worm one way out of,
- slipped out,
- worms one way out of,
- wormed ones way out of,
- worming one's way out of,
- beats around the bush,
- worms ones way out of,
- worming ones way out of,
- worming one way out of,
- slips out,
- beating around bush,
- wormed one's way out of,
- worms one's way out of,
- wormed one way out of,
- slipping out.
Other synonyms:
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- incisiveness,
- bilk,
- soreness,
- diddle,
- penetrate.
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- mulct.
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- edge.
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- punch.
- smart,
- sell a bill of goods,
- put to,
- wrenching,
- pique,
- whacked,
- sic,
- sandbag,
- short-change,
- needle,
- martyrize,
- sicked,
- ate into,
- beat around the bush,
- rowels,
- offend,
- martyrizing,
- make pay through nose,
- fire up,
- extorts,
- murphy,
- SICS,
- get under skin,
- pull leg,
- play games with,
- be disagreeable,
- maltreat,
- hoax,
- put up to,
- stiffed,
- be sore,
- gammon,
- etch,
- irritate,
- take for a ride,
- have goose bumps,
- Roweled,
- Martyred,
- pink,
- thumb nose at,
- leaning on,
- worked over,
- wrack up,
- work over,
- nettle,
- make waves,
- in spirits,
- prick,
- sandbags,
- put the arm on,
- scamming,
- iced,
- get a rise out of,
- put over on,
- dumped on,
- put one over on,
- hurt,
- chicaning,
- pull fast one,
- taking for ride,
- hurt feelings,
- Rowelled,
- whacking,
- goad,
- Shafting,
- shake down,
- Martyring,
- get excited,
- scammed,
- goosing,
- Rowelling,
- Gammoning,
- fires up,
- pulling one's leg,
- Gouging,
- put screws to,
- take to cleaners,
- prickling,
- wounded,
- goosed,
- key up,
- do violence,
- Gammoned,
- Shafted,
- Roweling,
- extort,
- sicced,
- beating around the bush,
- hurt one's feelings,
- turn one off,
- cut to the quick,
- victimize,
- keyed up,
- pull a fast one,
- was sore,
- hit where one lives,
- martyrized,
- shortchange,
- wound,
- wears away,
- lay a bad trip on,
- chicaned,
- wearing away,
- injure,
- wear away,
- lean on,
- run a game on,
- rotted,
- dump on,
- prickled,
- sicking,
- spank,
- itch,
- faked out,
- Tiffed,
- sandbagged,
- fake out,
- rowel,
- beat around bush,
- gammons,
- traumatize,
- eat into,
- gooses,
- be tender,
- burn,
- tingle,
- stiffs,
- give no quarter,
- Winging,
- makes waves,
- go for jugular,
- worm one's way out of,
- up set,
- zinging,
- be painful,
- pull one's leg,
- Suckering,
- sandbagging,
- take to the cleaners,
- give the business,
- martyrizes.
- Snowing,
- pigeons,
- discriminate against,
- have for,
- rope in,
- have it in for,
- discriminated against,
- stack the deck,
- Snowed,
- roped in.
- cog the dice,
- Oxgoad,
- adhere,
- do in,
- harmful,
- dupe,
- thimblerig,
- stinging,
- rasp,
- thrill,
- jab,
- baffle,
- take a dive,
- vehemence,
- stung,
- arms,
- prickle,
- raciness,
- gad,
- hot,
- dart,
- pluck,
- exploit,
- burn mark,
- embitter,
- cauterise,
- bewilder,
- get,
- Prickliness,
- bee injury,
- pose,
- surcharge,
- overprice,
- fleece,
- come home to,
- harshness,
- destructive,
- chouse,
- carve,
- brier,
- twitch,
- Hocus,
- twinge,
- insulting,
- stifle,
- pigeon,
- bee's wound,
- tip,
- incense,
- peppery,
- harrow,
- crib,
- fuss,
- flurry,
- clip,
- violence,
- undercover operation,
- con,
- ado,
- wring,
- pungent,
- hocus-pocus,
- touch a chord,
- drill,
- deleterious,
- cusp,
- bustle,
- bitterness,
- twist,
- stir,
- stupefy,
- instrument of punishment,
- pack the deal,
- go deep,
- bramble,
- put forward,
- be keen,
- hold up,
- nudge,
- vex,
- adverse,
- virulence,
- trap,
- sunburn,
- soften,
- aggrieve,
- erect,
- finagle,
- sharp,
- neb,
- chomp,
- aggravate,
- prod,
- hoodwink,
- whip,
- stridency,
- burning,
- raise,
- rip off,
- martyr,
- profiteer,
- sarcastic,
- severity,
- endure,
- fester,
- instrument,
- outrage,
- screw,
- tickle,
- mordacity,
- wrath,
- fob,
- convulse,
- yardbird,
- envenom,
- direction finder,
- bad,
- tweak,
- burn up,
- point,
- perplex,
- flummox,
- puncture,
- injurious,
- stinger,
- gravel,
- rub,
- mouthful,
- nib,
- stimulate,
- acuminate,
- melt,
- roughness,
- deceive,
- crucify,
- jibe,
- stack the cards,
- scratch,
- rigour,
- chop,
- cauterize,
- euchre,
- hurry,
- kick,
- bleed,
- affront,
- ream,
- knock,
- thorn,
- bane,
- flog,
- auger,
- fudge,
- cut,
- fool,
- fret,
- scourge,
- cancer,
- acidity,
- beguile,
- elevate,
- urtication,
- nosh,
- paresthesia,
- compress,
- insult,
- overtax,
- lacerate,
- causticity,
- pound,
- Enchafe,
- slap,
- convict,
- buzz,
- dagger,
- glow,
- pins and needles,
- tweet,
- pinch,
- hype,
- fiddle,
- hurting,
- tartness,
- Burning Pain,
- trenchancy,
- buffalo,
- itchiness,
- bother,
- pungency,
- put-down,
- beesting,
- lash,
- gibe,
- trouble,
- feverish,
- astringency,
- trick,
- barb the dart,
- agonise,
- rob,
- enrage,
- twist the knife,
- prickles,
- carking care,
- give offense,
- kill,
- exasperate,
- bucket,
- mystify,
- rile,
- combust,
- shave,
- soak,
- borer,
- gall,
- whiplash,
- bamboozle,
- cram,
- cleave,
- incinerate,
- spur,
- inmate,
- stay,
- poke,
- cling,
- collation,
- puzzle,
- arrow,
- nip,
- rigor,
- give pain,
- seize with teeth,
- throbbing pain,
- defy,
- skin,
- gouge,
- huff,
- amaze,
- grieve,
- beguile of,
- lodge,
- pestiferous,
- jailbird,
- e,
- acrimony,
- teeth,
- excruciate,
- Trapan,
- bit,
- detrimental,
- evil,
- bleed white,
- aculeus,
- overcharge,
- creep,
- poignancy,
- rankle,
- bristle,
- Acumination,
- fang,
- beat,
- ramp,
- punish,
- dumbfound,
- hurtful,
- grind,
- irritating,
- ulcer,
- burn down,
- tang,
- barb,
- canker,
- gnaw,
- excite,
- disadvantageous,
- stand-by,
- titillate,
- scorpion,
- fire,
- deposit,
- cut up,
- mordancy,
- grip,
- resentment,
- snakebite,
- Mucro,
- biting,
- bite the tongue,
- bee sting,
- bind,
- snack,
- prolong the agony,
- ardent,
- shoot,
- ail,
- acridity,
- galling,
- cog,
- squeeze,
- give umbrage,
- bee's defence,
- grate,
- stringency,
- wallop,
- pricking,
- cruciate,
- wedge,
- quill,
- do out of,
- gadfly,
- boiling,
- move,
- burn off,
- morsel,
- spicy,
- discompose,
- cohere,
- welsh,
- bond,
- bristle with,
- shaft,
- acerbity,
- trepan,
- piquant,
- nonplus,
- ruffle,
- fierceness.
How to use "Sting" in context?
The sting is a 1972 American film directed by George Roy Hill and written by Ernest Lehman. The film stars Richard Gere and Paul Newman as two con artists who team up to pass off a fake $10,000 diamond to a wealthy man (Robert Redford) as a genuine diamond. The film's supporting cast includes Cliff Robertson, Isabelle Adjani, and James Brolin.
The Sting was well-received on release, grossing over $114 million at the worldwide box office. Both Gere and Newman received Academy Awards for their performances.
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Reverse Entailment
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Noun, singular or mass
stinger.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Independent
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Proper noun, singular
hits.
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Proper noun, singular
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Other Related
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Noun, singular or mass
bite, darter, scam, transaction.
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Noun, singular or mass
Homophones for Sting:
- steadying, station house, sheet music, stung, shadiness, suiting, shedding, six times, set to music, steaming, stowing, siddons, satang, sodding, sudanese, swathing, suddenness, stomachic, squattiness, shooting, sustenance, stenosis, steadiness, shading, scathing, stanch, Seth Thomas, stench, staidness, sootiness, shadowiness, Stations, sea tang, stannous, stotinka, Stonehenge, stoning, stomach ache, sweetening, stone age, stoutness, staining, scudding, setting, skating, shutting, St. Dominic, sodomize, sodomise, sheathing, systemize, stone-wash, sauteing, stingy, stannic, seething, stomach, Sweetness, succeeding, sheeting, sightedness, satanic, scouting, sedateness, soothing, sighting, St. Thomas, shadowing, Steaminess, stinky, sadness, staunch, sweating, systemise, stance, stewing, stink, studying, stunning, stomachache, squatness, shouting, sitting, stonewash, systemic, siding, St. Nick, seating, St. Athanasius, squatting, seediness, St. Denis, saddening, stanza, shoddiness.
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- Synonyms:
- Chambering.
