acidulous
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Sharp observations like these show us glimpses of the acidulous social satirist of Hollywood’s Golden Age.
From Washington Post • Apr. 27, 2021
What pricked up my ears wasn’t so much Hollis’ truculent sentiments as his acidulous language, which Macy delivered like a blue-collar maestro.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2020
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
Rhubarb, rōō′b�rb, n. a plant, the tender acidulous leaf-stalks of which are much used in cooking, and the root in medicine: the root of any medicinal rhubarb, with cathartic properties.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
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