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Trenchant

Trenchant | Trenchantly

Trenchant meaning

Fitted to trench or cut; gutting; sharp. | Fitted to trench or cut; gutting; sharp. | Adapted for tearing into flesh.

Example sentences (13)

A more trenchant reaction came from the Labour leader of Gravesham council, Cllr John Burden, who effectively accused the government of cherry-picking areas where it had more support.

In May 1991, Daily Mail columnist Paul Johnson, who died last week, wrote this trenchant analysis of the NHS.

Then debuted, with more trenchant and sophisticated properties than just about anything that had appeared on US television to date.

Council will find that any attempts to bury the incompetent handling and egregious damage done to RWH by Council will be met with trenchant community opposition.

While Wilders is known for his trenchant positions on Islam, he has been talking about demographic decline for years.

But while many Trump supporters have found a new regard for experts and expertise, their disdain for the media, and what they view as unfair treatment of Mr. Trump, is more trenchant than ever.

In that way, its commentary on Trump’s America is chillingly trenchant.

Back in the 1960s, he was part of the quartet whose brainy absurdism inspired Monty Python, and that deadpan wit continues to inform his trenchant comedies on serious themes.

There was a trenchant reaction by the PNC to an observation made about the upcoming elections in Guyana by State Department official, Dr. Robert Ellis.

When he was writing for National Review he was the conservative who liberals loved to hate, writing trenchant analysis but steering away from invective and maintaining a fair-minded spirit.

Demosthenes also had a daughter, "the only one who ever called him father", according to Aeschines in a trenchant remark.

He attacked the post World War I deflation policies with A Tract on Monetary Reform in 1923 – a trenchant argument that countries should target stability of domestic prices, avoiding deflation even at the cost of allowing their currency to depreciate.

He published numerous articles, stories, and reviews, enhancing his reputation as a trenchant critic which he had established at the Southern Literary Messenger.