Severe, strict, harsh. Of persons and their utterances: Cutting in rebuke, invective, or satire; harsh and peremptory in command. Also of looks…

Of the nature of a quip; characterized by or given to making quips.

having a sharp tooth; figurative biting (in speech), caustic, sarcastic.

Sharply critical, censorious, sarcastic. Obsolete or merged in preceding sense.

figurative. Resembling or suggestive of a thorn or thorns in respect of sharpness and aridity; unpleasant and difficult or unprofitable to handle or…

transferred and figurative. Producing an effect or sensation like that of scalding. Of utterances: Caustic, stinging. Obsolete.

= spinous, adj. 1. Obsolete.

Of a person: sharp in criticism or comment upon or with another. Obsolete.

figurative. Of a person or thing (esp. a tone, demeanour, etc.): sour, sharp; cutting, bitter.

figurative. That makes the mind to smart: said of language, wit, humour, and, by extension, of persons; sharp, bitter, cutting, biting, sarcastic.

Done or uttered sharply, rapidly, or vigorously.