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Examples of acidulous
acidulous
Objects for acidulous social criticism can be counted on the fingers of one hand.
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Throughout the rising debate, the acidulous FBI chief has maintained a low profile.
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He is an acidulous critic of the incumbent administration and its military servants.
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Popular and press reaction was considerably more acidulous toward perfidious Albion.
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I like Maher best when he's bringing his own brand of acidulous biblical witness to bear.
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Now on Blu-ray, it glistens with acidulous wit and malice toward all.
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All three are characteristically bleak and acidulous comedies staged by the author himself.
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We are in for a dance of death, to quote the title of Strindberg's acidulous play about a dying marriage.
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For half a century he roamed the halls of fashion and fame with a folding Kodak and an acidulous pen.
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- Acidic: being sour to the taste
- (acidulousness) acidity: the taste experience when something acidic is taken into the mouth
- Slightly sour; sub-acid; sourish; as an acidulous tincture - Edmund Burke
- (acidulously) In a acidulous manner; in a mildly sour or acid way
- A term denoting excessive total acidity. The threshold for acidulousness is undefined, but certainly a wine with a pH less than 3.1 or a titratable acidity more than 0.9% will taste sour and acidulous. The opposite (taste denoting insufficient total acidity) is flat.
- A clean, pleasant taste describing the slight tanginess of a curd or fresh cheese.
- Sour; bitter; painstaking [L.- acidulus- slightly sour]
- Very young wine with a high level of acidity.
- Adj. - sharp or sour in taste or manner. acidulate, v.
