Both Uses of
acrid
in
A Rose for Emily
- A thin, acrid pall as of the tomb seemed to lie everywhere upon this room decked and furnished as for a bridal: upon the valance curtains of faded rose color, upon the rose-shaded lights, upon the dressing table, upon the delicate array of crystal and the man's toilet things backed with tarnished silver, silver so tarnished that the monogram was obscured.†
- One of us lifted something from it, and leaning forward, that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils, we saw a long strand of irongray hair.†
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Definition:
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(acrid) harsh or caustic -- physically as when smoke from burning rubber might irritate the throat; or figuratively as when someone says something that is especially sarcastic