vinegarish

Example Sentences

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Aiken being right would mean Eliot showing a "thin and vinegarish hostility towards the modern world" and sounding a note of "withered dogmatism".

From The Guardian • Jan. 10, 2013

Like Winthorpe's, his blood was black and icy and vinegarish.

From My Friend Prospero by Harland, Henry

But I am morally certain she has all sorts of vinegarish names for me.

From Anne by Woolson, Constance Fenimore

His position in this battle was that of conductor of "The Gabwrangle Grimalkin," a cross-grained, querulous, tart and vinegarish little folio, which hoisted the banner of Theophilus Flam, and swore in his words.

From Quodlibet by Kennedy, John Pendleton