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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
- As I entered, however, my fears were set at rest, for it was the acrid fumes of strong coarse tobacco which took me by the throat and set me coughing.Chapter 3 — The Problem (64% in)
There are no more uses of "acrid" in The Hound of the Baskervilles.
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