trenchantly

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

trenchant +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

trenchantly (comparative more trenchantly, superlative most trenchantly)

  1. In a trenchant manner.
    • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 88:
      By hammering trenchantly on that point, Podson was induced to say sulkily, "Oh, all right, if you're so set on it...I never mentioned it. Hang it, I'm not likely to mention it to anybody, am I?"