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stingingadjective causing intense discomfort to one's skinthese cold, stinging winds are not just a discomfort—they can be dangerous to exposed flesh biting, bitter, cutting, keen, penetrating, piercing, raw, sharp, shrewd, smarting brisk, invigorating, nippy, snappyneedlelike, prickly, tinglingcaustic, corrosive balmy, gentle, mild, soothing to charge (someone) too much for goods or servicesa nightclub that's been stinging patrons for years gouging, overcharging, soaking, surcharging cheating, defrauding, stickingclipping, fleecing, skinningmischarging undercharging to rob by the use of trickery or threatsswindlers who sting unwary tourists by posing as officials demanding money beating, bilking, bleeding, cheating, chiseling(or chiselling), chousing, conning, cozening, defrauding, diddling, doing, doing in, euchring, fiddling, fleecing, flimflamming, gaffing, gypping, hosing(slang), hustling, mulcting, nobbling(British slang), plucking, reaming, ripping off, rooking, screwing, shaking down, shortchanging, shorting, skinning, skunking, squeezing, sticking, stiffing, suckering, swindling, thimblerigging, victimizing extorting, wrenching, wresting, wringingclipping, gouging, nicking, overcharging, soakingexploiting, milkingdeceiving, duping, fooling, gulling, trickingroping (in)betraying, bitching, double-crossingbamboozling, fast-talking selling a bill of goods to, taking for a ride, taking to the cleaners |