vinegarish
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of 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 Henry Harland
But I am morally certain she has all sorts of vinegarish names for me.
From Anne by Constance Fenimore Woolson
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 John Pendleton Kennedy
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