trenchancy
- a word derived from trenchant.
Example Sentences
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This sterling production, with its flawless cast and admirable trenchancy amid an extraordinarily complex plot, augurs well for her tenure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
And yet, directed with trenchancy and an easy grasp of its black humor by Jamie Lloyd, the production never attempts to force-feed us any relevance.
From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2014
Yet he writes with a marvellous trenchancy that sometimes becomes savage indignation.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2010
But Gilroy's plain, familial triangle rings with insight and trenchancy.
From Time Magazine Archive
This, I take it, would hardly have answered if his trenchancy had not been in practice corrected by J.H.N.'s wider political circumspection.
From The Oxford Movement Twelve Years, 1833-1845 by Church, R. W. (Richard William)
