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  • 81acrimonious — I adjective acerb, acerbic, acrid, astringent, biting, bitter, blistering, captious, caustic, censorious, choleric, corrosive, cross tempered, cruel, cutting, cynical, embittered, envenomed, gruff, harsh, hostile, huffy, ill natured, inimical,… …

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  • 82damaging — I adjective baneful, calamitous, calumnious, caustic, contemptuous, corrosive, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, disadvantageous, disastrous, grievous, harmful, hurtful, incriminatory, inculpatory, inimical, injurious, insalubrious, malefic …

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  • 83harsh — I adjective acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, ascetic, astringent, austere, biting, bitter, brusque, brutal, burning, caustic, corrosive, crude, cruel, despiteful, discordant, disrespectful, draconian, drastic, excessive, extreme, feral,… …

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  • 84mordacious — I adjective acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, biting, bitter, caustic, corrosive, cutting, harsh, incisive, knifelike, malicious, mordant, penetrating, piercing, pointed, pungent, rancorous, raw, rough, scathing, severe, sharp, slashing,… …

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  • 85trenchant — I adjective acrimonious, acute, biting, brisk, caustic, clear cut, cutting, distinct, dynamic, energetic, explicit, forceful, incisive, intense, keen, mordant, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, pointed, powerful, pungent, sarcastic, scathing,… …

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  • 86indictment — noun 1 sign that sth is bad/wrong ADJECTIVE ▪ devastating, powerful ▪ damning, scathing, searing, stinging, terrible (esp. BrE) ▪ Her …

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  • 87attack — I n. assault (also fig.) 1) to carry out, make; launch, mount; lead, spearhead; press an attack 2) to provoke an attack 3) to blunt; break up, repel, repulse an attack 4) (often mil.) an all out, concerted, full scale; coordinated; mock; pre… …

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  • 88condemnation — n. 1) to issue a condemnation 2) a bitter, harsh, scathing, strong; sweeping condemnation * * * [ˌkɒndəm neɪʃ(ə)n] harsh. scathing strong sweeping condemnation a bitter to issue a condemnation …

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  • 89criticism — n. 1) to arouse, provoke, stir up criticism 2) to express, offer criticism; to level criticism at 3) to take criticism 4) to temper one s criticism 5) to subject smb. to criticism 6) adverse, biting, damaging, devastating, harsh, hostile,… …

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  • 90denunciation — n. 1) to issue, make a denunciation 2) a bitter, scathing, strong, vehement; sweeping denunciation * * * [dɪˌnʌnsɪ eɪʃ(ə)n] make a denunciation scathing strong sweeping denunciation vehement a bitter to issue …

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