causticallyadv.
In a caustic manner.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > caustic or ironic ridicule > [adverb]
dryly1430
ironiously1532
ironically1535
satirically1590
Lucianically1592
sarcastically1647
sarcasmically1658
sarcasmatically1716
sardonically1842
caustically1850
to put, or speak with, one's tongue in one's cheek1928
sarkily1967
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > [adverb] > sharply
poignantly1724
caustically1850
causticly1870
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > criticism > [adverb] > sharply
caustically1850
causticly1870
acidly1880
snippily1977
1850 ‘Bat’ Cricketer's Man. (ed. 4) 100 A writer..caustically remarked.
1876 E. Mellor Priesthood v. 201 Their divergences of opinion have been caustically likened..to the foxes which Samson bound, which, though united at their tails, were wide apart in their bodies, and widest of all at their heads.
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adv.1850- to pay one's footing
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