caustic
adjective
capable of burning, corroding, or destroying living tissue.
causticity
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a word derived from
caustic.
Example Sentences
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A perfect match for the general causticity of the screenplay by Brooks, MacLaine and Winger were far from typical Hollywood stars.
From Slate ● May 4, 2021
Mr. Yankovic seemed somewhat chagrined by this incident one month later and said any causticity in his blog post came from fear that his work on “Perform This Way” would be wasted.
From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2011
It is colored with the lyric causticity of the Brecht-Weill collaborations.
From Time Magazine Archive
The work was more suited to the meridian of Edinburgh; and from causes sufficiently obvious, its personality and causticity.
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli
And, she adds, with her usual causticity, that if one were to classify the population into two great divisions, it would be impossible to define them more expressively than by these two words.
From Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by W. H. Davenport Adams
