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  • 41acrimonious — I adjective acerb, acerbic, acrid, astringent, biting, bitter, blistering, captious, caustic, censorious, choleric, corrosive, cross tempered, cruel, cutting, cynical, embittered, envenomed, gruff, harsh, hostile, huffy, ill natured, inimical,… …

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  • 42acute — I adjective acer, acuminate, acutus, alert, apt, astute, aware, clear sighted, critical, crucial, cutting, discerning, fine, foreseeing, intense, intuitive, keen, keenly sensitive, knowledgeable, penetrating, perceptive, perspicacious, perspicax …

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  • 43biting — index bitter (acrid tasting), bitter (penetrating), bitter (reproachful), caustic, harsh, incisive …

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  • 44bitter — I (acrid tasting) adjective absinthal, absinthian, acerbate, acerbic, acerbus, acid, acidulous, acidus, acrid, asper, biting, caustic, cutting, disagreeable, distasteful, pungent, sharp, sour, soured, sourish, tart, unappetizing, unpalatable,… …

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  • 45corrosive — index adverse (negative), bitter (penetrating), caustic, decadent, deleterious, disadvantageous …

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  • 46cutting — index acute, bitter (acrid tasting), bitter (penetrating), caustic, division (act of dividing), incisive, mordacious …

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  • 47damaging — I adjective baneful, calamitous, calumnious, caustic, contemptuous, corrosive, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, disadvantageous, disastrous, grievous, harmful, hurtful, incriminatory, inculpatory, inimical, injurious, insalubrious, malefic …

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  • 48knifelike — index mordacious Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 49malignant — I adjective atrocious, baleful, baneful, barbarous, bitter, blackhearted, bloodthirsty, brutal, brutish, cancerous, caustic, cold blooded, coldhearted, consuming, corrosive, cruel, damaging, dangerous, deadly, death bringing, death dealing,… …

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  • 50mordant — index astringent, bitter (penetrating), harsh, incisive, mordacious, severe, trenchant Burton s Legal Th …

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