pungent
puhn juhnt
- s strong and sharp
the pungent taste of radishes - s capable of wounding
pungent satire
- He insists it is a highly pungent comment on the folly of human achievement.
- Given that Madonna has never actually set foot in Africa (husband Guy Ritchie went earlier this year), the whole enterprise has the pungent aroma of a coordinated act of publicity.
- He likes to call them his "pithies and pungents," the zinging denunciations of Administration critics that have made him headlines off and on since he assailed "an effete.