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slashing
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slash·ing  (slshng)
adj.
1. Bitingly critical or satiric: slashing wit.
2. Dashing; pelting: a slashing hailstorm.
3. Brilliant; intense: slashing colors.
n.
The act of swinging a stick at an opponent in ice hockey or lacrosse, in violation of the rules.

slashing·ly adv.

slashing [ˈslæʃɪŋ]
adj
aggressively or harshly critical (esp in the phrase slashing attack)
slashingly  adv
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Adj.1.slashing - as if striking with slashing blows; "his slashing demon-ridden cadenza"
dynamic, dynamical - characterized by action or forcefulness or force of personality; "a dynamic market"; "a dynamic speaker"; "the dynamic president of the firm"
Translations
slashing [ˈslæʃɪŋ] ADJ [attack etc] → fulminante
slashing
adj blowzerschmetternd; attack alsoscharf; criticismvernichtend


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Where Larkin's poems respond to life's disappointments with a biting melancholy, Amis's are slashingly satiric.
 
 
 
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