sharp
/ʃɑɹp/ adverb B2- To a point or edge.
- Piercingly.
- Eagerly.
- So as to make a sharp, or tight, angle. · South of the city the river turns sharp to the east.· sharp left, sharp right
- Exactly. · I'll see you at twelve o'clock sharp.
- In a higher pitch than is correct or desirable. · I didn't enjoy the concert much because the soprano sang sharp on all the high notes.
Comparative sharper · Superlative sharpest
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They have a sharp, shrewish look, which I do not like at all; and in her air altogether, there is a self-sufficiency without fashion, which is intolerable.”
And then she called a dozen of her slaves, who were the Winkies, and gave them sharp spears, telling them to go to the strangers and destroy them.
There now came a sharp whistling in the air from the south, and as they turned their eyes that way they saw ripples in the grass coming from that direction also.
With one blow of his paw he sent the Scarecrow spinning over and over to the edge of the road, and then he struck at the Tin Woodman with his sharp claws.
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