subacid
Americanadjective
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slightly or moderately acid or sour.
a subacid fruit.
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(of a person or a person's speech, temper, etc.) somewhat biting or sharp.
adjective
Other Word Forms
- subacidity noun
- subacidly adverb
- subacidness noun
Etymology
Origin of subacid
Example Sentences
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He never interpreted, colored or predicted: the grist from his mill was fact, ground fine and digestible, sieved through a faintly subacid cast of thought.
From Time Magazine Archive
Obscure in her poetry, subacid in her satire, she finds the 18th Century real, the present ghostly.
From Time Magazine Archive
In World War II Meighen has sat in the quiet backwater of Canada's appointive Senate, making subacid wisecracks about Mackenzie King's conduct of the war.
From Time Magazine Archive
Was not his cousin Biographer Lytton Strachey, whose bland ironies and subacid wit had done as much as any one intellectual force to sap his generation's faith in education, the church, the state?
From Time Magazine Archive
Flesh yellow, rather firm and coarse, tender, pleasant subacid.
From The Apple by Various
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