acridity

Example Sentences

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The pangram from yesterday’s Spelling Bee was acridity.

From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2021

The full acridity of the gas starts fumigating your buggy consciousness.

From Slate • Aug. 3, 2012

The polish, the precision, the elaborate grace and subterranean acridity of Mr. Cabell's characteristic style have never been displayed to better advantage than in this, which is among the very bitterest of his books.

From Time Magazine Archive

With 271two prosperous sons, the widow would be well taken care of, he thought, perhaps adding with a little acridity, “just as she always has been, without a thought on her part.”

From The Squirrel-Cage by Williams, John Alanzo

Its sharp acridity is lost in cooking, but like all acrid Lactarius it is coarse and not very good.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha