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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
- Georgiana, who had a spoiled temper, a very acrid spite, a captious and insolent carriage, was universally indulged.Chapter 2 (47% in)
- True, generous feeling is made small account of by some, but here were two natures rendered, the one intolerably acrid, the other despicably savourless for the want of it.Chapter 21 (82% in)
- Mr. Rochester then turned to the spectators: he looked at them with a smile both acrid and desolate.Chapter 26 (70% in)
There are no more uses of "acrid" in Jane Eyre.
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