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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.

acrid = harsh or caustic

Her acrid remarks make her many enemies.

acrid = harsh or caustic

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

acrid = harsh

The rain and wind paused, and an acrid smell like burning wire filled the air.
Ben Mikaeslen -- Touching Spirit Bear

acrid = harsh or caustic

There was a pause, and the murmur of other voices; then a match striking, the acrid smell of fresh cigar smoke.
Natalie Babbitt -- Tuck Everlasting

acrid = harsh

Despair hung in the air like the smoke from the Map Room, thick and acrid.
James Dashner -- The Maze Runner

acrid = harsh or caustic

...it swept so closely over me as to fan me with its acrid breath.
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Pit and the Pendulum

acrid = harsh or caustic

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

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