Adjective

(en adjective)

harshly or bitterly critical

* {{quote-news

, year=2011 , date=December 14 , author=Angelique Chrisafis , title=Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism , work=Guardian citation , page= , passage=For months, Dati warned she would refuse to stand aside. Now she has stunned the political class with an open letter to Fillon in Le Monde, a scathing character assassination accusing him of the "lone ambition" of a disillusioned political elite, of doing politics in a way that "never favoured women" and stopping ethnic-minority candidates from progressing at elections. She said he was committing "a sad mistake" in trying to run in Paris.}}

harmful or painful; acerbic

Adjective

(en adjective)

(of a person) given to vulgar verbal abuse; foul-mouthed

(of language) coarse, vulgar, abusive, or slanderous

* 2014 July 29, " On chutzpah and war," Aljazeera.com (retrieved 29 July 2014):

Perhaps the greatest chutzpah is the term itself, moving from scurrilous origins to something admirable.