acridity

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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

Dumb′-cane, a plant of the order Arace�, aberrant in its almost arborescent character, but agreeing with them in its acridity, which is in none of them more highly developed.—adv.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

Thomas Nash will himself hardly escape the charge of acridity, but only injustice or want of discernment will call him a quack.

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George