mordacious

  • (s) capable of wounding
    • a barbed compliment
    • a biting aphorism
    • pungent satire
    barbed, biting, nipping, pungent,
  • (s) biting or given to biting
    • they deliberately gave me a skittish and mordacious mount

Synonyms

barbed biting nipping pungent

Words of close approximity

mordaciously