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trenchancy

/tren-chuhnt/US // ˈtrɛn tʃənt //UK // (ˈtrɛntʃənt) //

伦琴,伦教,伦常,伦纳德

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : incisive or keen, as language or a person; caustic; cutting: trenchant wit.
    • : vigorous; effective; energetic: a trenchant policy of political reform.
    • : clearly or sharply defined; clear-cut; distinct.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounsarcasm
Synonyms
acerbity涩性,涩味,涩,涩的acidity酸度,酸性,酸碱度,酸性物质acridity酸度,尖锐化,尖锐性,尖锐度acrimony刻薄,争吵,尖锐化,刻薄寡恩aspersion诽谤,诋毁,讽刺,诽谤罪banter谑而不虐,戏谑,谐谑,逗趣bitterness苦味,辛酸,苦涩,苦难burlesque滑稽戏,滑稽剧,滑稽表演,歌舞剧censure斥责,谴责,指责,训斥comeback回归,复出,卷土重来,回头是岸contempt蔑视,藐视,鄙视,藐视法庭criticism批评,批语,批判,批评声cut切,切割,削减,割cynicism犬儒主义,嘲讽主义,嘲讽,愤世嫉俗derision嘲笑,嘲笑声,嘲笑的话,嘲弄dig挖掘,挖掘机,挖出,挖disparagement贬低,贬损,诋毁,鄙视invective谩骂,谩骂声,恶语伤人,辱骂irony反语,反话,反语法,讽刺mockery嘲讽,嘲弄,讽刺,嘲笑mordacity卑鄙无耻,卑鄙小人,卑鄙的行为,卑鄙无耻之徒put-down撂倒,撂挑子,贬低,放下raillery炮制,炮弹,炮击,炮火rancor恨意,怨恨,恨铁不成钢,仇恨ridicule讥讽,嘲弄,调侃,嘲讽satire讽刺,讽刺文学,讽刺诗,讽刺意味scoffing嘲笑,嘲笑声,嘲讽,嘲笑声中scorn蔑视,轻视,不屑一顾,看不起sharpness锐度,清晰度,锐利度,锋利度superciliousness傲慢无礼,傲慢自大,霸气,傲慢无礼的人wisecrack俏皮话,妙语连珠,幽默感causticity苛责,苛责性,苛求,苛求性causticness苛责性,苛责,苛政,苛性corrosiveness腐蚀性,腐蚀性强,腐蚀性强的,腐蚀力flouting蔑视,藐视,藐视他人的行为,蔑视性lampooning讽刺,嘲讽,嘲弄,戏谑mordancy杂乱无章,杂色,和谐性,和谐主义sneering冷笑话,冷笑,说风凉话,冷笑话连篇

Examples

  • The result is a trenchant commitment to right-wing values that provides the prism through which many Mormons interpret new crises.

  • It’s a really nuanced and thoughtful book that won a million awards when it came out in 2018, and it’s especially trenchant on the responsibilities forced on to the families of incarcerated people.

  • Whitehead and Jenkins are very different kinds of artists, the former a minimalist whose spare prose conceals allegories of remarkable depth and the latter an expressionist, infusing trenchant ideas into sounds and images laden with emotion.

  • They argue that this increasingly trenchant China must be resisted, not managed or negotiated with, and Hong Kong is the front line.

  • One of the most trenchant chapters in the book is deceptively simple.

  • Much looking forward to going on with what is apparently also a trenchant and enlightening book.

  • The more trenchant and subtle criticism was that Republicans aren't bad people.

  • Typically, the Internet exploded with trenchant commentary about the leather jacket Palin wore.

  • Moss came to admire Wasserstein and his trenchant deconstruction of his fellow power brokers.

  • From the Reagan ascension until recently, the most trenchant description of the prevailing vision was “Starve the Beast.”

  • It is not every one that can handle an instrument of such trenchant power, yet delicate temper, as Nelson's sensitive genius.

  • It must be admitted that this is satire of a good trenchant sort.

  • The western demand for responsible government pointed the way, and Howe became, with Baldwin, its most trenchant advocate.

  • Hence, the transition is abrupt; although by no means conclusive as to any broad and trenchant line of ethnological demarcation.

  • The words with which the parable is pressed home are severe and trenchant; but they are nevertheless full of gospel grace.