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Caustically

adverb
1.
In a caustic vitriolic manner.  Synonym: vitriolically.






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"Caustically" Quotes from Famous Books



... questions put to the wretched 'witches' were simply grotesque, and reflect, as Watkins caustically observes, on the intelligence of the examiner. ...
— Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts • Rosalind Northcote

... his head," he said caustically, with a growl, sitting up and looking about him. "I'll get the reason in two guesses: someone's trying to escape, or ...
— With Joffre at Verdun - A Story of the Western Front • F. S. Brereton

... observed Malone caustically. "Who's running this gang?" Then, with a malicious grin: "I got a customer for those fivers—fifteen thousand dollars for all we can ...
— The Adventures of Jimmie Dale • Frank L. Packard

... made with plays like "Peg o' My Heart" and "The First Year," both as pure as the driven snow. It is true that Avery Hopwood has grown rich on his royalties. But not so rich as Winchell Smith, who has dealt exclusively with sweetness and light. Also those who laugh most caustically over the Hopwood estate usually find it convenient to ignore the fact that the greatest single contribution to it has been made by "The Bat," at which Dr. Straton might conceivably faint from excitement but at which he would have to work pretty hard ...
— Nonsenseorship • G. G. Putnam

... bottle of wine for his companion, a cup of coffee for himself, and, lighting a cigarette, compressed his lips. There was a strange, sweet sinking in his heart. His companion, ignorant of this emotion, drank his wine, crumbled his roll, and blew smoke through his nostrils, glancing caustically at the rows of little tables, the cheap mirrors, the hot, red velvet, the chandeliers. His juicy lips seemed to be murmuring, "Ah! if you only knew of the dirt behind these feathers!" Shelton watched him with disgust. Though his clothes were now so nice, his nails ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... said caustically, "I've seen a thousand credits before. I've turned down a thousand credits before, in jobs I didn't like. As for being stranded here on Irwadi, it's all the same to me whether I'm ...
— Equation of Doom • Gerald Vance

... you'll enjoy playing nursemaid all the rest of the trip?" Breckenridge asked caustically, but with ...
— Spacehounds of IPC • Edward Elmer Smith

... it seemed as though Cadet Corporal Brayton could have no other aim in life than to drive his squad of candidates away from West Point. At almost every move through the drill he berated them caustically, though in such faultless military language of reproof as ...
— Dick Prescott's First Year at West Point • H. Irving Hancock

... Upper Gallery, the price of admission to which was one shilling. It was the cheapest part of the theatre, and is often alluded to in Prologue and Epilogue, but generally with abuse or sarcasm. Dryden, in his Prologue to Tate's The Loyal General (1680), caustically advises:— ...
— The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. I (of 6) • Aphra Behn



Words linked to "Caustically" :   caustic, vitriolically



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