trenchant in English

adjective

1

vigorous or incisive in expression or style.

she heard angry voices, not loud, yet certainly trenchant

synonyms: incisive, penetrating, sharp, keen, insightful, acute, focused, shrewd, razor-sharp, piercing, vigorous, forceful, strong, potent, telling, emphatic, forthright, mordant, cutting, biting, acerbic, pungent

2

(of a weapon or tool) having a sharp edge.

a trenchant blade

adjective

incisive, penetrating, sharp, keen, insightful, acute, focused, shrewd, razor-sharp, piercing, vigorous, forceful, strong, potent, telling, emphatic, forthright, mordant, cutting, biting, acerbic, pungent
clear-cut, distinct
hard-hitting
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Use "trenchant" in a sentence

1. His article is trenchant.

2. Corrosive and Bitingly trenchant; cutting

3. He is a trenchant critic.

4. Trenchant essays can criticize contemporary abuses.

5. His comment was trenchant and perceptive.

6. Brown's article contains trenchant social criticism.

7. Some of their comments were quite trenchant.

8. His trenchant views on the subject are well known.

9. Stockman became one of the President's most trenchant critics.

10. Characteristic: Colour is trenchant, be full of nutrient value.

11. He was shattered and bewildered by this trenchant criticism.

12. He formulated trenchant aphorisms that caught their attention.

13. The reviewer however is not a trenchant imperialist.

14. His speech was a powerful and trenchant attack against apartheid.

15. He was shattered and Bewildered by this trenchant criticism

16. 14 He was shattered and bewildered by this trenchant criticism.

17. The trenchant and inspiring comments of the scholars impressed the audience greatly.

18. Bilateral authority duty trenchant. The manufacturing enthusiasm of the farmer is very tall.

19. His speech was a powerful and trenchant attack against 〔 on 〕 apartheid.

20. Geographic Environment is a huge open system, which has quite trenchant arrangement and integration.

21. But below the sort of solemn and respectful expression trenchant and insidious uneasiness and panic.

22. As easy mayst thou the in trenchant air With thy keen sword as make me bleed.

23. It was the language of purity which mobilized many women to develop a trenchant critique of male sexuality.

24. 12 The two had much in common: conceit, fame, unorthodox pulpit manners and a trenchant belief in liberal progress.

25. I had to tell some one about Cleve-find something trenchant and important about him and tell some one.

26. The two had much in common: conceit, fame, unorthodox pulpit manners and a trenchant belief in liberal progress.

27. The trenchant symbolism of his pictures is essentially alien to the Dada conception of randomness and fortuitous juxtaposition.

28. Land and the Nation was a rather trenchant report based upon a private investigation into the ownership and use of rural land.

29. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2010 was awarded to Mario Vargas Llosa "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat".

30. Abbate's chapters are, as readers of her earlier work expect, trenchant, precise, and compelling, for she carefully connects technical considerations with social dimensions to provide thick description of behaviors in action.

31. Acerbic adjective sharp, cutting, biting, severe, acid, bitter, nasty, harsh, stern, rude, scathing, acrimonious, barbed, unkind, unfriendly, sarcastic, sardonic, caustic, churlish, vitriolic, trenchant, acrid, brusque, rancorous, mordant, mordacious comments made in a spirit of Acerbic wit

32. Acerbic adjective sharp, cutting, biting, severe, acid, bitter, nasty, harsh, stern, rude, scathing, acrimonious, barbed, unkind, unfriendly, sarcastic, sardonic, caustic, churlish, vitriolic, trenchant, acrid, brusque, rancorous, mordant, mordacious comments made in a spirit of Acerbic wit

33. In Boetzkes's fascinating book, art is contextualized in the world of globalized and Aestheticized consumer capitalism—and it has an engaged role to play: one of representation, trenchant critique, and presumably the instigation of social and ecological transformation.

34. Here the Vietnam of syndromes, MIA myths, noble causes, and ignoble Casuistries receives critical scrutiny, while the America of veterans, the Vietnam generation, and the new Americans from Southeast Asia comes into trenchant focus." (Robert Andersen Washington Post Book World)

35. Pretty Bitches is truly something."―Marcy Dermansky, author of Very Nice and The Red Car "Funny, trenchant, moving, breathtaking -- the essays here remake a language that has been used so often to trap women so that it can free them instead