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View synonyms for cut and thrust

cut and thrust

noun

  1. fencing using both the blade and the point of a sword
  2. (in argument, debate, etc) a lively and spirited exchange of ideas or opinions
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Her shrewd question, uttered almost unthinkingly in the cut-and-thrust of repartee, had got home somewhere on an old wound.

The sword was carried on the right thigh, and was a short cut-and-thrust weapon, like that which was used by the Spaniards.

And finally, there was a cut-and-thrust sword of alarming dimensions.

The word “Broad-sword” may be taken to include all kinds of cut-and-thrust swords.

I had none myself—nothing save a light cut-and-thrust sword.

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