Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a biting manner; sarcastically; sneeringly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a biting manner.
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- adverb In a
biting manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb extremely and sharply
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Examples
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Jose Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913) popularized Mexico's life of the dead in bitingly satiric, mass-produced etchings and lithographs that have enthralled Mexicans for generations.
Dia de los Muertos: the dead come to life in Mexican folk art 2003
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Jose Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913) popularized Mexico's life of the dead in bitingly satiric, mass-produced etchings and lithographs that have enthralled Mexicans for generations.
Dia de los Muertos: the dead come to life in Mexican folk art 2003
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Jose Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913) popularized Mexico's life of the dead in bitingly satiric, mass-produced etchings and lithographs that have enthralled Mexicans for generations.
Dia de los Muertos: the dead come to life in Mexican folk art 2003
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He caught a feeling of chumminess, though at the same time he was bitingly aware that it was very much of a woman who embraced him in that comradely smile.
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Or, more bitingly, “You go around kneecapping people???”
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Enraged by the success of "We's Lives," he writes a violent, nihilistic, dialect-strewn thug novel he bitingly titles "My Pafology."
A Protean Chronicler of Racial Puzzles Sam Sacks 2011
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It was only a minute, and it was reasonably civil in a bitingly snappy sort of way, but nonetheless.
Eva Norlyk Smith, Ph.D.: The Secret Behind THE SECRET: Who Gets to Tell Your Story? Ph.D. Eva Norlyk Smith 2010
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He also writes one bitingly funny scene in which his heroine finds herself grilled by Jeremy Paxman in an exchange that spreads more heat than light.
The Heretic - review 2011
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It was hard not to notice that Axelrod's response echoes a memorable, bitingly sarcastic line from a Clinton campaign swing through Rhode Island in March 2008.
White House Rhetoric On Bipartisanship Echoes Clinton's In 2008 Sam Stein 2010
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One of the funniest and most bitingly accurate parts of "Bobos in Paradise" was Brooks's analysis of the New York Times's wedding announcements.
The tea party warns of a New Elite. They're right. Charles Murray 2010
sionnach commented on the word bitingly
"Menage-a-trois sex is just electric!" said Tom, bitingly.
October 30, 2007