Usage examples (36)

• Adjective : trenchant wit. ,a trenchant policy of political reform
• Isabel saw them come with a good deal of assiduity to her aunt’s hotel, and judged them with a trenchancy which is doubtless to be accounted for by the temporary...
• Holz states with great clearness and trenchancy what he calls his 'new principle of lyric'; one which
• His generosity in reading this entire manuscript was characteristic; so was the trenchancy and penetration of his comments.