caustically

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But he is also so paranoid, deluded and consumed with self-loathing that throughout this caustically witty novel we can’t help but root for him every step of the way.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

“We reject the proposition,” the majority wrote caustically, “that a class-action defendant may defeat class treatment, if it is otherwise proper, by promising as a matter of grace to treat named plaintiffs differently.”

From Slate • May 16, 2025

Vilanch, now a snarky and youthful 76, comes across as a big, caustically friendly and wonderfully gay Muppet.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2025

Over the next three series, Atkinson played the scheming, cruel, caustically funny Blackadder opposite Sir Tony Robinson's naïve, uneducated Baldrick.

From BBC • May 11, 2023

“The credit given to Mr. Adams for a spirit of conciliation towards France is wonderful,” Madison observed caustically, meaning that it was wholly undeserved.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis