acidities
- plural of acidity.
Example Sentences
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Mother herself, played with benign obliviousness by Carolyn McCormick, utters streams of soothing phrases, ignoring both her husband’s acidities and her children’s increasing discomfort.
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2014
If peak acidities rather than long-term averages are what matters most, natural variability could make things worse.
From Economist ● Jul. 1, 2010
Her laborious refinement and sincerity are expertly relieved by the acidities of Edna May Oliver.
From Time Magazine Archive
Percy Hammond: "Excepting the soft acidities of Mr. Strachey's investigation, it is the most entertaining, so far as we know, of the impudent annals of its exemplary topic."
From Time Magazine Archive
It was a brave, good speech, a speech from that stanch and strong spirit which lay behind all the acidities and angularities of the old zoologist.
From The Poison Belt by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
