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US
/ˈtɹɛntʃənt/
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[ UK /tɹˈɛntʃənt/ ]
[ UK /tɹˈɛntʃənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought, expression, or intellect
searching insights
trenchant criticism -
characterized by or full of force and vigor
a hard-hitting expose
a trenchant argument -
clearly or sharply defined to the mind
Claudius was the first to invade Britain with distinct...intentions of conquest
trenchant distinctions between right and wrong
clear-cut evidence of tampering
How To Use trenchant In A Sentence
- trenchant distinctions between right and wrong
- The trenchant symbolism of his pictures is essentially alien to the Dada conception of randomness and fortuitous juxtaposition.
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- Trenchant is just starting a programme of sea trials following a ground-breaking refit which has set the standard for other submarines.
- Sterne, and Le Sage, so trenchant, so compact of the stuff of life; and turn from them to the modern novel, composed of scenery and word-pictures and metaphor and the dramatic situations, of which A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
- Violinist Adela Pena played with a penetrating tone and trenchant musicality.
- Although she usually keeps her most trenchant observations for the stage, several members of Hollywood royalty have received a memorable tongue-lashing.
- Quite trenchant in his views about right and wrong. Times, Sunday Times
- Characteristic: Colour is trenchant, be full of nutrient value.
- That meant that he was always hugely popular both in the House of Lords and the House of Commons, because his criticisms, although trenchant, were never malicious.
