Crossword-Solution: TRENCHANT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Trenchant | v. t. | Fitted to trench or cut; gutting; sharp. |
| Trenchant | v. t. | Fig.: Keen; biting; severe; as, trenchant wit. |
We have 17 clues for the answer “TRENCHANT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Penetrating insect? | 1 answer |
| Like insightful commentary | 1 answer |
| Keen, as wit | 1 answer |
| Sharp-edged | 3 answers |
| Scathing | 17 answers |
| Terse | 18 answers |
| Acerbic | 24 answers |
| Emphatic | 30 answers |
| Pointed | 37 answers |
| CAUSTIC ___ | 42 answers |
| Biting | 46 answers |
| Acid | 54 answers |
| Ironic | 69 answers |
| incisive | 75 answers |
| Penetrating | 78 answers |
| Keen | 86 answers |
| CUTTING ___ | 88 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TERAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with TRENCHANT (5)
First, the lonely boar-spears and knives of the chase had been reddened as of old; then, had gleamed trenchant in the morning sunshine; now, doors and windows were thrown open, horses in their stables looked round over their shoulders at the light and freshness pouring in at doorways, leaves sparkled and rustled at iron-grated windows, dogs pulled hard at their chains, and reared impatient to be loosed.
Strange then that the entire administration mobilized to aim its big guns at Professor Diana Trenchant--or was it? The inner workings of administrative jingoism are exposed as a popular teacher is given a termination hearing where the presiding officer is the accuser, the prosecutor and the judge, and the testimony in her defense is ignored.
Judged by that standard I ‘m nowhere!” Rowland was at loss how to receive this account of his friend’s domestic circumstances; it was plaintive, and yet the manner seemed to him over-trenchant.
But all that he was he was by instinct and not by theory, and the amiability of his character was so great that certain of the aristocratic virtues, which in some aspects seem rather brittle and trenchant, acquired in his application of them an extreme geniality.
State railways may be good things and so may State bakeries; but a State newspaper will never be a very trenchant critic of the State officials.
Quotes with TRENCHANT (3)
forest paths — flat labyrinths — and gentle plains invite the walker’s body to softness, to languor. And memories arise like eddying mists. The air is more bracing with Nietzsche, and above all sharp, transparent. The thought is trenchant, the body wide awake, trembling.
Who knows when a trenchant line becomes a human face?
A pair of werewolves occupied another booth. They were eating raw shanks of lamb and arguing about who would win in a fight: Dumbledore from Harry Potter books or Magnus Bane." Dumbledore would totally win," said the first one. "He has the badass Killing Curse." The second lycanthrope made a trenchant point. "But Dumbledore isn't real.""I don't think Magnus Bane is real either," scoffed the first. "Have you ever met him?""This is so weird," said Clary, slinking down in her se…
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1971–2018).