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caustically

/kaw-stik/US // ˈkɔ stɪk //UK // (ˈkɔːstɪk) //

高兴地,苛责地,严肃地,苛求地

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : capable of burning, corroding, or destroying living tissue.
    • : severely critical or sarcastic: a caustic remark.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a caustic substance.
    • : Optics. caustic curve. caustic surface.

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Examples

  • It’s an approach that relies more on caustic rhetoric than on substantiated allegations.

  • A recently formed advocacy group in Northern Virginia, Arlington Parents for Education, released a caustic statement slamming the superintendent’s new, slower reopening plan, arguing it will harm children.

  • If he was getting hot around the collar, Ziffer said caustically, it was "partly because I'm one of those hot-headed Levantines."

  • “I find ‘the baboon’ suits him better than his real name,” she adds caustically.

  • “Only blue-eyed blondes get any press,” he caustically wrote.

  • "You seem to know as much about submarines as you do about moving pictures," remarked Matt, caustically.

  • Max commented on the fact caustically, but Dal hushed him up.

  • "Till then I may as well make myself useful," Stella interrupted caustically.

  • And Mr. Evans had caustically rejoined: "It'll be the funny day when you'll see wings on him!"

  • "There's some things—such as chronic sassiness—some folks never get over," he observed caustically.