trenchant
IPA: trˈɛntʃʌnt
adjective
- (obsolete) Fitted to trench or cut; gutting; sharp.
- (figuratively) Keen; biting; vigorously articulate and effective; severe.
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Examples of "trenchant" in Sentences
- He is a trenchant critic.
- He was a vigorous and trenchant orato.
- He has since become a trenchant critic of Chomsky.
- Is the criticism trenchant, trifling, transformative
- "Did you never see anyone wet?" she asked, in trenchant tones.
- He has become well known as a trenchant critic of the U.S. media.
- As Foreign Secretary, Beckett came in for some trenchant criticism.
- By contrast, there is a trenchant side to the post modernist phenomenon.
- Ferry was an early and trenchant critic of army commander Joseph Joffre.
- Fenton's colorful expressions and trenchant observations became legendary.
- Throughout the book, Seife's practiced journalist's eye results in trenchant nonmathematical observations.
- Doyle -- That's exactly the kind of trenchant analysis that's going to get you a column in the New York Times.
- Meanwhile, Spencer, Emily and Aria are standing around a red trenchant, which is what Ali's claim ticket was for.
- General Schenck did not appear to differ greatly from Davis, but what he said was in short, trenchant sentences, interjected from time to time.
- In the summer of 1842 sundry coarse assaults upon Shields, attributed in great part, or wholly, to the so-called trenchant and witty pen of Miss Todd, appeared in the Springfield
- MALCOLM Turnbull has been forced to reassure "trenchant" coalition critics of the Government's emissions trading scheme he will not act unilaterally over the government's Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme.
- And there is Barbour Bruce who might have been a writer, but is only known as a trenchant wit - "Who," she asked at a party, "was that nice, well-dressed, refined, common woman who has just had her cup of tea and gone away?"
- Bolton's assessment of Persian duplicity and his skepticism about the NIE recalls another trenchant comment by Rumsfeld on the nature of reports, that "Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns ... but there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don't know we don't know."