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MORDACIOUS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Biting or given to biting
Example:
they deliberately gave me a skittish and mordacious mount
Classified under:
Similar:
dangerous; unsafe (involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm)
Derivation:
mordacity (a disposition to biting)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Capable of wounding
Example:
pungent satire
Synonyms:
barbed; biting; mordacious; nipping; pungent
Classified under:
Similar:
sarcastic (expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds)
