acidulous
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But I was dying to see what she’d do with Joanne, the role originated by Elaine Stritch, who long owned the character’s acidulous second-act number, “The Ladies Who Lunch.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2022
Sharp observations like these show us glimpses of the acidulous social satirist of Hollywood’s Golden Age.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 27, 2021
Susan Strasberg plays an acidulous critic à la Pauline Kael: “What he creates, he has to wreck, it’s a compulsion.”
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 26, 2018
German tenor Burkhard Ulrich made a properly acidulous Mime.
From Reuters ● Jul. 29, 2013
They are formed in profusion, are acidulous and wholesome.
From Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Edward Ellis Morris
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