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Definition
harsh or caustic — physically as when smoke from burning rubber might irritate the throat; or metaphorically as when someone says something that is especially sarcastic- We were chased from the room by the acrid smoke.
acrid = harsh or caustic
- The acrid smell of tear gas still lingered.
- Her acrid remarks make her many enemies.
- On the other hand, if they are left on the heat too long, most of the beans will be burned, which will make the chocolate bitter and acrid.Laura Esquivel -- Like Water for Chocolate
- The rain and wind paused, and an acrid smell like burning wire filled the air.Ben Mikaeslen -- Touching Spirit Bear
- Despair hung in the air like the smoke from the Map Room, thick and acrid.James Dashner -- The Maze Runner
- ...it swept so closely over me as to fan me with its acrid breath.Edgar Allan Poe -- The Pit and the Pendulum
- It wrapped her about; it lifted her off her feet, while the very taste of it, as of something potent, acrid and strange, forced open her set teeth.Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volumes 1 & 2
- The air, still and muggy, held the scents of coffee and patisserie and the acrid tang of someone's cigarettes.Jojo Moyes -- Me Before You
- It wrapped her about; it lifted her off her feet, while the very taste of it, as of something potent, acrid and strange, forced open her set teeth.Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2
- The acrid smells of overheated machinery and gun smoke fill my lungs.Susan Ee -- Angelfall
- I stood up stiffly, my eyes tearing from the acrid smoke, and looked out across the cotton to the slope, barely visible in the smoggish dawn.Mildred D. Taylor -- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
- I have no choice but to take a few mouthfuls—tasting, as I do, the acrid sting of medication.Lauren Oliver -- Delirium
- She looked at the books again—black, brown, and that acrid theological blue.E.M. Forster -- A Room With A View
- "Ah, yes!" said he, laughing acridly.Thomas Hardy -- Jude the Obscure
- Then the acrid tang of vinegar cut the air, and Teabing felt the cool liquid flowing out through the dials onto his palm.Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
- The acrid smell of electricity permeated the air.James Dashner -- The Scorch Trials
- He rubbed his cheek along his forearm, smelling the acrid scent of salt and sweat and the staleness of dirt.William Golding -- Lord of the Flies
- I shook my head and returned to the window, inhaling the brown chemical, acrid breaths of the distant blaze.William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
- An acrid vapor burned his nostrils despite the heavy, wet air.Henry H. Neff -- The Hound of Rowan
acrid = harsh or caustic
acrid = harsh or caustic
acrid = harsh
acrid = harsh or caustic
acrid = harsh or caustic
acrid = harsh or caustic