mordacious

Warton contents himself with what he calls “a sensible criticism,” taken from Harrison, a Protestant minister, and one of the partners of Holinshed’s Chronicle; it is as mordacious as a periodical criticism.

Hard, mordacious, no man's friend … that was the David Drennen who at P�re Marquette's f�te sought any quarrel to which he might lay his hands.

Unable longer to endure the lash of his mordacious wit, Shaynon turned and left them alone on the balcony.