0 severe, expressing strong criticism or forceful opinions:
His most trenchant criticism is reserved for the party leader, whom he describes as "the most incompetent and ineffectual the party has known".
Dorothy Parker's writing is characterized by a trenchant wit and sophistication.
1 (of something said or written) forcefully and effectively expressed, and often in few words:
They deserve my thanks for their kindness, but also for their more trenchant criticisms.
The framework of interpretation which this produces makes for some trenchant judgements.
Rather, the argument emerged as a consilience of trenchant observation, strategic apology and inspired mistake.
There still seems to be more fun in the rhymes than trenchant social criticism.
In the present case, that move was illustrated by trenchant critique of the ulama.
This book describes his life and opinions, the latterly mostly trenchant especially when it comes to modernism in any art form.
Its style is engaging and readable, the analysis trenchant and penetrating, the overall argument critical and sound.
Their trenchant criticism made the final version more coherent than it otherwise would have been and, in my view at least, more convincing.
