MORDACIOUS

• (adj.) biting or given to biting

  "they deliberately gave me a skittish and mordacious mount"

• (adj.) capable of wounding

  "a barbed compliment", "a biting aphorism", "pungent satire"

  synonyms : barbed , biting , nipping , pungent

  The Chief Minister drafted a pungent letter to the Traffic Control Department over the increasing incidents of traffic violations and accidents in the city. -added by naila_inlas

  His biting remarks disheartened her. -added by naila_inlas

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