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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

“Would it be any less terrible if they had all been new men?” he inquired caustically.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller




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