mordacious (adj.)

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

    [ Syn: barbed , biting , nipping , pungent ]

  2. biting or given to biting; they deliberately gave me a skittish and mordacious mount'

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