pungent
adjective
sharply affecting the organs of taste or smell, as if by a penetrating power; biting; acrid.
pungently
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a word derived from
pungent.
Example Sentences
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The floating objects pungently evoke enslaved agricultural laborers, but the wooden path is the most important part, since it represents the road to freedom for 14 people in the Poolesville, Md., area.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2023
And yet almost everything out of his mouth was dry, new and pungently funny.
From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2020
“This is social satire of a very high order, not quite Swift, perhaps, but very fast indeed, and pungently and acidly observed,” Los Angeles Times reviewer Sheila Benson wrote.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 22, 2020
He lacked the patience and discipline for literature—though he might have become, if he had stuck to journalism, a second Mencken, dispensing pungently funny observations of everyone and everything.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 4, 2019
The janitorial closet smelled pungently of bleach and cleaning solvents.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
