stinging

causing or experiencing a painful shivering feeling as from many tiny pricks

• “a prickling blush of embarrassment”
• “the tingling feeling in a foot that has gone to sleep”
• “a stinging nettle”
• “the stinging windblown sleet”

having a sting or the capacity to sting

• “stinging insects”
• “stinging nettles”

(of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character

• “cutting remarks”
• “edged satire”
• “a stinging comment”

a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung

• “the sting of death”
• “he felt the stinging of nettles”