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
Posset, pos′et, n. a dietetic preparation, made by curdling milk with some acidulous liquor, such as wine, ale, or vinegar.—v.t.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
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