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词汇 trenchant
释义 trenchant
adjective
 formaluk /ˈtren.tʃənt/ us /ˈtren.tʃənt/
severe, expressing strong criticism or forceful opinions: (批评或意见)尖锐的,尖刻的,犀利的
His most trenchant criticism is reserved for the party leader, whom he describes as "the most incompetent and ineffectual the party has known".他对该党的领导人进行了最为尖锐的批评,称他是“该党有史以来最平庸、最无能的人”。
Dorothy Parker's writing is characterized by a trenchant wit and sophistication.多萝西‧帕克的作品的特点是睿智、老练。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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acerbically
acerbity
acidly
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cold-heartedly
cruel
cruelly
cruelty
cruelty to someone/something
meanly
meanness
mental cruelty
merciless
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trenchancy
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trenchant | American Dictionary


trenchant
adjective
us/ˈtren·tʃənt/
(of something said or written) forcefully and effectively expressed, and often in few words:
I enjoy reading Murray’s trenchant comments on the relationship between sports and society.

Examples of trenchant


trenchant
They deserve my thanks for their kindness, but also for their more trenchant criticisms.
The framework of interpretation which this produces makes for some trenchant judgements.
Rather, the argument emerged as a consilience of trenchant observation, strategic apology and inspired mistake.
There still seems to be more fun in the rhymes than trenchant social criticism.
In the present case, that move was illustrated by trenchant critique of the ulama.
This book describes his life and opinions, the latterly mostly trenchant especially when it comes to modernism in any art form.
Its style is engaging and readable, the analysis trenchant and penetrating, the overall argument critical and sound.
Their trenchant criticism made the final version more coherent than it otherwise would have been and, in my view at least, more convincing.
One finds a similar but more trenchant view in the work of some later preacher-poets.
Indeed, so trenchant are they that one begins to question whether these were his real feelings.
His appearances provoked a trenchant public reaction, one that throws theoretical insights and conclusions into sharp relief.
There are five pieces on religion that are notable for her trenchant critique of religion.
In private, or with our wives, he was remarkably trenchant.
Her conclusion makes some trenchant restatements of her earlier conclusions, emphasizing the verbal power that women could wield on the 'domestic stage' (p. 268).
In these times of post-post-post structuralism and after more than two decades of studies on the rhetoric of science, few would dare to defend such a trenchant distinction.
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