|  mordacious 
 
 1. capable of wounding
 - a barbed compliment
 - a biting aphorism
 - pungent satire
 • Syn:
 barbed, biting, nipping, pungent
 • Similar to:
 sarcastic
 • Derivationally related forms:
 pungency (for: pungent)
 2. biting or given to biting
 - they deliberately gave me a skittish and mordacious mount
 • Similar to:
 dangerous, unsafe
 • Derivationally related forms:
 mordacity
 
 
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