sharp-cut
Americanadjective
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cut so as to have a sharp edge.
a tool with a sharp-cut blade.
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distinctly outlined; clearly defined.
Example Sentences
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The lead car was jammed with drum kits, guitar cases, and sharp-cut jackets and two-tone shoes.
From Salon • Nov. 28, 2014
Geneva's decision reached out across the sharp-cut hills and jungles, across the paddies swollen in the rain.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its dialogue can be high-flown as well as sharp-cut, and some of its epigrams are distinctly tarnished.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even Western Christians may find their own familiar words and phrases spring to new life in pidgin's sharp-cut images.
From Time Magazine Archive
We had never seen anything as sharp-cut and symmetrically carved as the buttes and pinnacles that rose around us.
From The Frontier Boys in the Grand Canyon A Search for Treasure by Roosevelt, Wyn
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