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Trenchantly   Listen
adverb
Trenchantly  adv.  In a trenchant, or sharp, manner; sharply; severely.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Trenchantly" Quotes from Famous Books



... to explain why the "bolting" so trenchantly referred to did not eventuate. He was stone-broke. Ballantyne was going to do his own amalgamating at the battery, and it would be cruel of him to ask her to share his fortunes. (Here he began to appreciate his leaning to morality.) If she was a single girl he would stay ...
— The Ebbing Of The Tide - South Sea Stories - 1896 • Louis Becke

... even more lengthy, elaborate, and impossible than "Every Man Out of His Humour." Here personal satire seems to have absorbed everything, and while much of the caricature is admirable, especially in the detail of witty and trenchantly satirical dialogue, the central idea of a fountain of self-love is not very well carried out, and the persons revert at times to abstractions, the action to allegory. It adds to our wonder that this difficult drama should have been acted by the Children of Queen ...
— Every Man In His Humour • Ben Jonson



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