acrid
adjective
sharp or biting to the taste or smell; bitterly pungent; irritating to the eyes, nose, etc..
acridly
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a word derived from
acrid.
Example Sentences
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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Peter Navarro, the president’s trade counsellor, have bickered acridly, as the former sought to persuade the president on the merits of tariff exemptions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
Less good: a dish called “Maple & Bourbon Nueske’s Bacon” for $26, which immediately wafts a strong liquid-smoke scent across the table, then tastes acridly more so, adding a honey-sweetness to the bacon-fire.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 24, 2022
Neptune has always been a kind of upside-down Mayberry, an acridly heightened not-quite-real-world, awash in oleaginous one percenters and two-bit hustlers, all of whom can banter like Nora Ephron’s version of Philip Marlowe.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2019
Borrowed from Dad, my own suit smelled acridly of mothballs.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 27, 2010
For the most part, however, their literature was acridly republican in tone and of a levelling tendency.
From William Pitt and the Great War by John Holland Rose
