mordacious
21harsh — I adjective acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, ascetic, astringent, austere, biting, bitter, brusque, brutal, burning, caustic, corrosive, crude, cruel, despiteful, discordant, disrespectful, draconian, drastic, excessive, extreme, feral,… …
22incisive — I adjective acute, biting, brisk, caustic, cutting, discerning, effective, electric, galvanic, harsh, keen, mordacious, mordant, mordax, moving, penetrating, piercing, piquant, pointed, powerful, pungent, sarcastic, sarcastical, satiric,… …
23scathing — I adjective acerbus, acrimonious, aculeatus, biting, brutal, burning, cruel, cutting, damaging, envenomed, excoriating, harmful, harsh, hurtful, insulting, maleficent, malevolent, malicious, malignant, mordacious, mordax, rancorous, scatheful,… …
24virulent — I adjective acerbus, acrid, acrimonious, antagonistic, baleful, baneful, bitter, deadly, deleterious, despiteful, destructive, envenomed, gravis, harmful, hateful, hostile, hurtful, injurious, lethal, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant,… …
25mordant — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. mordacious, biting, sarcastic. See pungency, malevolence. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. stringent, bitter, sharp; see severe 2 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. biting, cutting, caustic, bitter,… …
26Malevolence — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Malevolence >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 malevolence malevolence Sgm: N 1 bad intent bad intent bad intention Sgm: N 1 unkindness unkindness diskindness Sgm: N 1 ill nature ill nature ill will ill blood …
27mordant — (adj.) late 15c., caustic (of words, speech), from M.Fr. mordant, lit. biting, prp. of mordre to bite, from L. mordere to bite, bite into; nip, sting; figuratively to pain, cause hurt (see MORDACIOUS (Cf. mordacious)). Related: Mordantly. The… …
28mor|da´cious|ly — mor|da|cious «mr DAY shuhs», adjective. 1. given to biting; biting: »They likewise assured us the bats were very mordacious (George Forster). 2. Figurative. caustic; mordant: »A repose freed from…mordacious malignity (Isaac D Israeli). ╂[<… …
29mor|da|cious — «mr DAY shuhs», adjective. 1. given to biting; biting: »They likewise assured us the bats were very mordacious (George Forster). 2. Figurative. caustic; mordant: »A repose freed from…mordacious malignity (Isaac D Israeli). ╂[< Latin mordāx,… …
30Reactions to the 2004 Madrid train bombings — ocialOn 12 March 2004, Spaniards took to the streets protesting against the bombings in a government organized demonstration to condemn ETA, who at the time was being blamed for the attacks. Vigo, which has a population of 300,000 inhabitants,… …
