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

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

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

From Anne by Woolson, Constance Fenimore