Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a caustic or severe manner: as, to say something caustically.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a caustic manner.
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- adverb In a
caustic manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a caustic vitriolic manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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A misogynist "-- caustically --" is the product of a very complete understanding of most feminine weaknesses. "
The Hermit of Far End Margaret Pedler
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Justice Alito, caustically: I think what Justice Scalia wants to know is what James Madison thought about video games.
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The Miss General Idea Pageant, File Magazine covers, queer poodles and endangered baby seals analogies, giant AZT capsule installations and run-on wall reliefs, and chromatic video test patterns all caustically and ironically index some aspect of the fin de millennium lifestyles of queer men and their mythically-enhanced aesthetic proclivity for post-minimalist design and wit, while effecting their own naked, if artworldly de rigueur, "deconstruction."
G. Roger Denson: MoMA and AA Bronson Present "Queer Cinema: Today and Yesterday" G. Roger Denson 2011
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Taibbi caustically and accurately sums up the situation.
David Morris: And the Academy Award for Cowardice Goes to... David Morris 2011
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Some even criticised Sonnenfeld quite caustically for this, which was perhaps a little unfair as this look was pretty true to the basic source material, Charles Addams‘ cartoon strips from The New Yorker - illustrations that had clearly had some impact on Burton’s aesthetic in the first place.
Tim Burton To Bring Us New Addams Family Film in 3D Stop Motion Animation (UPDATED) | /Film 2010
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Justice Alito, caustically: I think what Justice Scalia wants to know is what James Madison thought about video games.
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In proposing a new American government, Paine scoffed caustically at the whole idea of balance and the covalence among branches that we're taught to revere as exceptionally American, but were really derived from the post-Settlement English constitution.
William Hogeland: How John Adams and Thomas Paine Clashed Over Economic Equality William Hogeland 2011
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Brown, who supports the Massachusetts universal health system, caustically sneered at national efforts to replicate their success.
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In proposing a new American government, Paine scoffed caustically at the whole idea of balance and the covalence among branches that we're taught to revere as exceptionally American, but were really derived from the post-Settlement English constitution.
William Hogeland: How John Adams and Thomas Paine Clashed Over Economic Equality William Hogeland 2011
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Justice Ginsburg, caustically: You'd have to be a lot closer than the law allows to spit in someone's face.
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