trenchant Synonyms

distinct hard-hitting searching probing punchy pungent savage salter sarcastic polemical pointed pithy mordacious mordant penetrant penetrating perceptive percipient perspicacious piercing sardonic satiric withering vitriolic virulent venomous terse telling tart strong stinging spiteful smart slashing sharp-witted sharp severe scathing satirical marrowy laconic cogent clear-cut clear censorious caustic bitter biting barbed astringent