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UK
/ˈɛdʒd/
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[ US /ˈɛdʒd/ ]
[ US /ˈɛdʒd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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(of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character
cutting remarks
edged satire
a stinging comment -
having a cutting edge or especially an edge or edges as specified; often used in combination
an edged knife
a two-edged sword -
having a specified kind of border or edge
dried sweat left salt-edged patches
rough-edged leaves
a black-edged card
How To Use edged In A Sentence
- Laura Wade's Posh, timed to open as the Tories edged into power in May 2010, reminded us just what we were in for: overprivileged hooligans in drinking-society blazers who trash a pub as thoughtlessly as they will trash the country. Dominic Cooke: a life in theatre
- The Pepper Street gang, of which Jackie was the acknowledged leader, was not a gang of drug-selling hoods.
- In meetings Thursday with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, the country's army chief and others, Gates called the antiterror operations a success so far, "and he acknowledged to all of them that we realize that has come with a great deal of sacrifice for the military," Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell said following the sessions. Stars and Stripes
- He said the long term vision of the ginnery is to establish a fully fledged textile industry, which will produce finished materials if the company started producing more lint than what the customers could take.
- He pledged his gold watch to pay for her birthday gift.
- We have the superdelegates who are the 796 folks who are unpledged.
- By having a strapping man say Katherina's words, it is not real and not naturalistic, so it gives the audience a jolt and makes the play double edged.
- He has pledged to bring his country to peace by the end of the year. Times, Sunday Times
- These successes, if that is what they are, are tinged with a jealousy that legal writers elsewhere have a more publicly acknowledged involvement in moulding the law's development.
- Al-Jazeera has emerged as a full-fledged political actor because it reflects and articulates popular sentiment. In post-Mubarak Egypt, the rebirth of the Arab world