acrid
IPA: ˈækrɪd
adjective
- Sharp and harsh, or bitter and not to the taste.
- Causing heat and irritation.
- (figurative) Caustic; bitter; bitterly irritating.
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Examples of "acrid" in Sentences
- The milk has an acrid taste.
- The milk tastes very hot and acrid.
- The acrid sting of lindane fills the air.
- It does not stain the tissues, and tastes acrid.
- The acrid smell reeking up the shaft was unmistakable.
- The dried roots have a slightly bitter and acrid taste.
- Everywhere, the acrid smell of bodies hangs in the air.
- The taste, pungent, acrid, slightly bitter and persistent.
- The milk has bitter and acrid taste, with a slightly hot aftertaste.
- Its juices are acrid and bitter and the bark possesses tonic properties.
- I hasten to spit it out, but all day my lips are still hot and acrid from the brief experiment.
- The hesitancy, the moral doubt of her conversation with Langham, seemed to have vanished wholly in a kind of acrid self-assertion.
- It was more a thing of his head than his heart, revealing itself mainly in short, acrid speeches, meant to be clever, and indubitably disagreeable.
- This bacon tastes intensely smoky, the sort that comes only from long exposure to cool wood smoke, and not of meat soaked in acrid liquid smoke flavoring.
- It's pronounced, as I'm sure you already knew, with the accent on the final 'a', not in a way to echo "acrid", though the second would be entirely suitable.
- Unfortunately, he offended Jerrold, by using the word "acrid" as applied to his writing, instead of some other word, which he could not think of at the moment.
- I hesitated a little, but as he pressed me, and would have an answer, I said that I did not feel quite so sure of his kindly judgment on Thoreau's books; and it so chanced that I used the word "acrid" for lack of a better, in endeavoring to express my idea of Jerrold's way of looking at men and books.