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Adjectives (6)

mordacious

adj. biting or given to biting; "they deliberately gave me a skittish and mordacious mount"

barbed, biting, nipping, pungent, mordacious

adj. capable of wounding; "a barbed compliment"; "a biting aphorism"; "pungent satire"

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derisive, gibelike, jeering, mocking, taunting

adj. abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule; "derisive laughter"; "a jeering crowd"; "her mocking smile"; "taunting shouts of `coward' and `sissy'"

contemptuous, disdainful, insulting, scornful

adj. expressing extreme contempt

acrimonious, bitter

adj. marked by strong resentment or cynicism; "an acrimonious dispute"; "bitter about the divorce"

corrosive

adj. spitefully sarcastic; "corrosive cristism"

poignant

adj. keenly distressing to the mind or feelings; "poignant anxiety"

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ironic, ironical

adj. characterized by often poignant difference or incongruity between what is expected and what actually is; "madness, an ironic fate for such a clear thinker"; "it was ironical that the well-planned scheme failed so completely"

saturnine

adj. bitter or scornful; "the face was saturnine and swarthy, and the sensual lips...twisted with disdain"- Oscar Wilde

satirical, satiric

adj. exposing human folly to ridicule; "a persistent campaign of mockery by the satirical fortnightly magazine"

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