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Meanings of mordacious in English

Capable of wounding.

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Examples for "biting"
Examples for "biting"
1
But recent government efforts to cool the market appear to be biting.
Reuters
2
Kachiun held himself still, biting back the questions he wanted to ask.
Genghis: bones of the hills: a novel
3
Did you believe some biting was necessary to maintain the LD population?
Raising Stony Mayhall
4
Most of the young men simply couldn't stand the biting and stinging.
Brave New World
5
Allan told Morning Report it was quite literally a nail biting evening.
Radio NZ
1
I vote we try to get round outside Mr. Brown's barbed wire.
Enchanted Glass
2
After 16 months of barbed constitutional squabbles, patience is in short supply.
The Irish Times
3
There was in the air an imminence of incident, acid and barbed.
Nights in London
4
And the name of this new and dreaded bramble is-thebarbed-wirefence.
Wild Animals I Have Known
5
Above the barriers runs barbed metal to prevent people from climbing over.
The Guardian
1
He caught its pungent aroma in the damp air of the court.
The Abandoned Room
2
The pungent reek of incense from a street-shrine was in the smells.
The Door Through Space
3
This information was repeated down the ranks, along with other pungent observations.
Scarlet
4
The pungent odour of ozone from the electric discharge filled the room.
The Silent Bullet
5
The pungent odor of ozone from the electric discharge filled the room.
Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3
1
The spaniel flew at the black dog; nipping at the plodding forepaws.
Further Adventures of Lad
2
That's the Emperor's strategy-tokeep his foes busy nipping at one another.
Son of a witch: volume two in the wicked years
3
All day the sun scorched her, but the night was nipping cold.
Tommy and Grizel
4
She bent and cracked from stem to stern among the nipping masses.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 52, February, 1862 / A Maga...
5
The worries that were nipping at his heels earlier returned with reinforcements.
The manning grooms: bride on the loose\same time, next year
Usage of mordacious in English
1
Hard, mordacious, no man's friend... that was the David Drennen who at Père Marquette's fête sought any quarrel to which he might lay his hands.
Wolf Breed
Mordacious through the time