stabbing

adjectives

causing physical or especially psychological injury

"a stabbing remark"; "wounding and false charges of disloyalty"

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"

cutting, keen, knifelike, lancinate, lancinating, piercing, stabbing