单词 | razor-edged |
释义 | > as lemmasrazor-edged razor-edged adj. that has a sharp or sharply defined edge; (figurative) incisive, cutting. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > sharpness of edge or point > [adjective] > of edge sharpc825 sharp-edgedc1000 well-edged1572 sheary1597 razored1613 blady1622 razor-edged1807 blade-like1859 knife-edged1863 vorpal1871 knife-edge1876 knifey1906 1807 Salmagundi 18 Apr. 150 The razor-edged zephyrs of our ‘balmy spring’. 1831 J. W. Croker in Croker Papers (1884) II. xvi. 143 Warburton has given us razor-edged disquisitions, fine and false. 1909 E. Shackleton in Geogr. Jrnl. 34 488 The snow-slopes..gave way to blue ice, with numberless cracks and crevasses, many of them razor-edged. 1939 S. K. Padover Life & Death Louis XVI vi. 55 A good conversationalist, he took delight in the play of his own razor-edged tongue. 1972 K. Bonfiglioli Don't point that Thing at Me xiii. 98 Even the shadows, razor-edged, purple and green, were painful to look at. 1993 Toronto Life Apr. 68/2 With the precise outline of her steel-rimmed glasses, not a hair out of place in her razor-edged bob,..the effect is retro schoolmistress. < as lemmas |
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