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Mordacious

adjective
1.
Capable of wounding.  Synonyms: barbed, biting, nipping, pungent.  "A biting aphorism" , "Pungent satire"
2.
Biting or given to biting.






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"Mordacious" Quotes from Famous Books



... to the flames by the hands of the hangman for certain popular errors; such as, for instance, under the word Gran Duca we find Vedi Gabelli! (see Taxes!) and the word Gabella was explained by a reference to Gran Duca! Grand-duke and taxes were synonymes, according to this mordacious lexicographer! Such grievances, and the modes of expressing them, are equally ancient. A Roman consul, by levying a tax on salt during the Punic war, was nicknamed Salinator, and condemned by "the majesty" ...
— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli

... into the mountains a heart at once sore and bitter. The soreness had been drawn out of it in time; the bitterness had but grown the more intense. Hard, mordacious, no man's friend . . . that was the David Drennen who at Pere Marquette's fete sought any quarrel to which he might lay his hands. The world had battled and buffeted him; it had showered blows and been chary of ...
— Wolf Breed • Jackson Gregory



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