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Meanings of hard-hitting in English

Characterized by or full of force and vigor.

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Aggressively and persistently persuasive.

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Examples for "trenchant"
Examples for "trenchant"
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A second less and the trenchant blade had shorne through his heart.
Dracula
2
The goddess of wisdom was her formidable and trenchant mother, Lady Spencer.
In a Green Shade / A Country Commentary
3
You could give us a trenchant essay on the Ingratitude of Man.
The Helmet of Navarre
4
Give me a trenchant statesman, or I pray you leave legislation alone.
Ginx's Baby: His Birth and Other Misfortunes; a Satire
5
The satire here is smart and trenchant, if perhaps a little one-sided.
The Guardian
Usage of hard-hitting in English
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Greek MPs voted for the bailout, including hard-hitting austerity measures, on Thursday.
Radio NZ
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Yesterday, he produced a hard-hitting analysis of the challenges facing Aer Lingus.
The Irish Times
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Did Mr McKay think his movie was a hard-hitting satire on capitalism?
The Guardian
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Is a hard-hitting lower-order batsman who can also take apart tired opposition.
The Guardian
5
Lee embraced the volatile times by producing hard-hitting songs by Rastafarian artistes.
Jamaica Observer
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It was going to be one of those old-fashioned, hard-hitting Irish afternoons.
The Irish Times
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Tipperary did enough to edge out Clare in a grinding, hard-hitting match.
The Irish Times
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Devi is most renowned as a straight-talking hard-hitting journalist for Carte Blanche.
The South African
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The hard-hitting lyrics cover taboo subjects like rape, domestic violence and self-immolation.
BBC
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The victim's nephew also posted a hard-hitting message online: RIP Stefan Smit.
The South African
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A hard-hitting publicity campaign and greater vigilance by police have yielded impressive results.
The Irish Times
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There are no hard-hitting economic data releases this week directly impacting the Rand.
The South African
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He spoke in the usual businessmen's hard-hitting way & shunned culture.
The new yorker
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The first edit was too hard-hitting, the filmmakers said, and needed toning down.
Reuters
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Since then it has become known in the Philippines for its hard-hitting investigations.
Radio NZ
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Very soon we will be launching a high-profile, hard-hitting, poster campaign.
The Irish Times
Hard-hitting through the time