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Acridness   Listen
noun
Acridness, Acridity  n.  
1.
The quality of being acrid or pungent; irritant bitterness; extreme bitterness; acrimony; as, the acridity of a plant, of a speech.
Synonyms: acridness
2.
Having an acrid smell.
Synonyms: pungency





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"Acridness" Quotes from Famous Books



... a door. They were in a chapel with a low ceiling crossed by beams gaudily painted with coal-tar pigment. The windows were hidden by great curtains. The walls were cracked and dingy. Durtal recoiled after a few steps. Gusts of humid, mouldy air and of that indescribable new-stove acridity poured out of the registers to mingle with an irritating odour of alkali, resin, and burnt herbs. He was choking, his ...
— La-bas • J. K. Huysmans
... New York of an interview he had had before sailing with an intensely disagreeable great-aunt, who was the wife of a Bishop. She was a horrible old woman with a broad face, blunt features and a raucous voice, whose tones added acridity to her observations when she was indulging in her favourite pastime of interfering with the business ...
— The Shuttle • Frances Hodgson Burnett


Words linked to "Acridness" :   acrid, disagreeableness


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