Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an incisive, sharp, or penetrating manner; penetratingly; trenchantly; sharply; acutely.

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  • adverb In an incisive manner.

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  • adverb in an incisive manner
  • adverb in a precise manner

Etymologies

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incisive +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Class divisions have increasingly permeated the nonprofit sector in recent years, a development incisively described by Harvard professor Theda Skocpol in her book, Diminished Democracy.

    Pablo Eisenberg: State of the Nonprofit Sector Pablo Eisenberg 2011

  • The "2011 Farmers 'Almanac" says October 4th through 7th will bring clear and incisively chilly weather to the northeast, fair weather to the southeast, a surge of colder air will move in into the south central region, fair chillier weather to the northwest and fair colder weather to the southwest.

    Predicting The Weather Not Always High-Tech 2010

  • On August 25, however, David E. Sanger and William J. Broad, reporters for The New York Times who had been writing incisively about the Khan network for years, produced an article exploring what they described as “the compromises that governments make in the name of national security.”

    Fallout Catherine Collins 2011

  • Class divisions have increasingly permeated the nonprofit sector in recent years, a development incisively described by Harvard professor Theda Skocpol in her book, Diminished Democracy.

    Pablo Eisenberg: State of the Nonprofit Sector Pablo Eisenberg 2011

  • Class divisions have increasingly permeated the nonprofit sector in recent years, a development incisively described by Harvard professor Theda Skocpol in her book, Diminished Democracy.

    Pablo Eisenberg: State of the Nonprofit Sector Pablo Eisenberg 2011

  • On August 25, however, David E. Sanger and William J. Broad, reporters for The New York Times who had been writing incisively about the Khan network for years, produced an article exploring what they described as “the compromises that governments make in the name of national security.”

    Fallout Catherine Collins 2011

  • Rereading Charlie's TV columns in the Guide from 2000 to 2010, the striking thing is how quickly and incisively he skewered the core of each show, pinpointing either its brilliance or boneheadedness.

    Charlie Brooker: 10 of the best Screen Burn columns Tim Lusher 2010

  • The movie is brilliantly scripted by Aaron Sorkin, author of the courtroom drama A Few Good Men and the TV series The West Wing, and incisively directed by David Fincher, whose films (among them Se7en, Fight Club, The Game and Zodiac) show him to be a doubter of outward appearance, a questioner of accepted realities.

    The Social Network – review Philip French 2010

  • "Deus Ex Machina" is also about how market-driven pop culture becomes grotesquely consecrated, but here the message is incisively delivered in a compact story.

    First the Settlers, Then the Settled Sam Sacks 2011

  • Class divisions have increasingly permeated the nonprofit sector in recent years, a development incisively described by Harvard professor Theda Skocpol in her book, Diminished Democracy.

    Pablo Eisenberg: State of the Nonprofit Sector Pablo Eisenberg 2011

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