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What does trenchant mean?

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Adjective
  1. (obsolete) Fitted to trench or cut; gutting; sharp.
  2. (figuratively) Keen; biting; vigorously effective and articulate; severe.
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What makes his books so popular is that he presents what he does find in a singularly trenchant and forthright manner.
In doing so, he subjects central tenets of modern economics to trenchant criticism.
Neither was his crime to be caught expressing his trenchant views, even though that was a bit stupid.
Today, his comedies are remembered for their level of artistry, inventiveness and trenchant sarcasm.
Members may recall that when the Parole Act and the Sentencing Act were first passed, there was trenchant criticism from the Court of Appeal.
A quiet and generally even tempered man, he could be and was trenchant in his criticisms as the occasion demanded.

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