Being harsh or corrosive in tone.
Of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action.
1 Your effort to be caustic is the sweetest thing in the world.
2 The lunar caustic was applied in half an hour after the accident.
3 We shall therefore in this place describe the manufacture of caustic soda.
4 The action of lime is greatest in its caustic or unslacked form.
5 The caustic Junius and other writers took this side of the question.
6 Its chemical products include Ionic membrane caustic soda, chloralkali salt and others.
7 Every one tried to outdo the other in saying caustic , spiteful things.
8 By the caustic sentence of Mr. Stevens it had been totally overthrown.
9 The single word was caustic enough to melt holes in the floor.
10 In most of the experiments it was convenient to use caustic potash.
11 In his public utterances he was more emphatic, more caustic of tongue.
12 Gas hissed as flesh melted on contact with the highly caustic fluid.
13 It was accompanied by a hefty, caustic book of the same name.
14 By boiling vegetable fibers with caustic lyes, Collier and Piette obtained cellulose.
15 I recognized some spurges that let their caustic , purgative sap trickle out.
16 Stanistreet was at a loss to understand the old fellow's caustic tone.
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