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  • adjective superlative form of punchy: most punchy.

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Examples

  • It can seem like the currency with everything, most obviously heavy exposure to the punchiest growth story around, via Australia's huge raw-material exports to China.

    The Currency That No One Wants to Bet Against? David Cottle 2012

  • Alas, he wrote in a valedictory note, not even the punchiest movie critic could hope to compete "with the vast advertising techniques that ensure a mass audience" for clunker after clunker.

    I Found it at the Movies: Reflections of a Cinephile by Philip French – review 2011

  • Despite dealing in vagueness, it seems the uncertainties of modern life have unleashed some of Bailey's sharpest and punchiest comedy.

    Bill Bailey: Dandelion Mind – review Stephanie Merritt 2010

  • Plus, especially with copywriting, the most effective stuff is often the shortest, punchiest writing.

    Copywriting or Design: Which Gets the Best Results? 2009

  • Modestly ambitious and highly successfully within its chosen territory, Dead Snow proves to be one of the punchiest horror flicks in recent memory and one of the more capable within its low-budget constraints; the silent, lifeless landscapes make for a chilling tension-builder between each over-the-top set piece, while a memorable third-act shot of a character trapped beneath the snow is more nightmarishly claustrophobic than anything in The Descent.

    Archive 2009-10-01 2009

  • Modestly ambitious and highly successfully within its chosen territory, Dead Snow proves to be one of the punchiest horror flicks in recent memory and one of the more capable within its low-budget constraints; the silent, lifeless landscapes make for a chilling tension-builder between each over-the-top set piece, while a memorable third-act shot of a character trapped beneath the snow is more nightmarishly claustrophobic than anything in The Descent.

    Dead Snow (2009): B 2009

  • Although the show leads with the 19th-century arts and crafts movement and treks delicately through art deco, its punchiest section is "Manipulating Modernity: Political Persuasion."

    Mussolini Over Miami 2008

  • Then the former Sports Center anchor came up was the shaprest at his punchiest.

    Sen. Kirk Watson Pummeled On National TV 2008

  • In fact, it struck me as the punchiest, hardest-hitting speech of the convention.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2008

  • "Wild at Heart" is Lynch's punchiest, campiest and most violent movie, featuring Willem Dafoe's spectacularly shot-off head, a severed hand, lots of sex, vomit, dirty talk and a leitmotif of gigantic close-ups of matches igniting.

    David Lynch's New Peak 2008

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