Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Characterized by acumen; sharp; penetrating.
  • Same as acuminose.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Characterized by acumen; keen.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Characterized by acumen; keen.

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Examples

  • I have yet to see a more suitable capturing of the absurdity of the U.S. entanglement than Representative Dennis Kucinich's recent acuminous polemic in the Huffington Post, as Kucinich writes in an article beautifully titled "Fake Taliban Leader, Fake Elections, Fake Deadline, Real Trouble":

    Michael Hughes: Making Afghanistan's Fraudulent Regime Seem 'Barely' Credible Michael Hughes 2010

  • Brustein's acuminous lens on the cultural and social aspects of Shakespeare's plays in the context of popular perception in Elizabethan and Jacobean England.

    Yale Press Log 2010

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