adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Brown's article contains trenchant social criticism.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Direct, trenchant writing came naturally, effective public speaking later.
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His writing and reflections, in fact, are not just trenchant but at times witty, even amusing.
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I had to tell some one about Cleve-find something trenchant and important about him and tell some one.
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It was the language of purity which mobilized many women to develop a trenchant critique of male sexuality.
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The trenchant symbolism of his pictures is essentially alien to the Dada conception of randomness and fortuitous juxtaposition.
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The reviewer however is not a trenchant imperialist.
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The two had much in common: conceit, fame, unorthodox pulpit manners and a trenchant belief in liberal progress.