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acidulous

[uh-sij-uh-luhs] / əˈsɪdʒ ə ləs /




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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

Waters thus named owe their properties to iron in combination generally with carbonic acid; and as the latter is usually in excess, they are often acidulous as well as chalybeate.

From Memoranda on Tours and Touraine Including remarks on the climate with a sketch of the Botany And Geology of the Province also on the Wines and Mineral Waters of France by J. H. Holdsworth




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