acid

adjective

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as in acidic
causing or characterized by the one of the four basic taste sensations that is produced chiefly by acids an acid-tasting medicine

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as in angry
having or showing a habitually bad temper with her acid personality, my aunt could be relied upon to bring some much-needed balance to the holiday gush

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as in satirical
marked by the use of wit that is intended to cause hurt feelings a cultural gadfly known for an acid tongue that spares no one

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Recent Examples of acid Basic Skin Care Routine The key to maintaining a healthy skin pH is a basic skin care routine that maintains the acid mantle. — Mark Gurarie, Verywell Health, 30 Oct. 2024 Even perennials have varying soil needs: some prefer more acid or more alkaline soil, or prefer a wet site or a dry one. — Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 2 Feb. 2025 Fluoride also replaces minerals lost from teeth due to acid breakdown, according to the CDC. ABC News' Youri Benadjaoud and Anne Flaherty contributed to this report. — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 29 Jan. 2025 The fires in Altadena and Pacific Palisades consumed not only trees, brush and timber from people’s homes but also lead acid car batteries, plastic pipes, synthetic furniture, paint and untold other potential sources of contamination. — Jack Healy, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for acid
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  1. acidic
  2. angry
  3. irritable
  4. sarcastic
  5. bilious
  6. satiric
  7. barbed
  8. splenetic
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  • Blueberries need a very acidic soil; have the soil pH checked before planting. 69.
    — Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 Mar. 2025
  • Natural colors can be sensitive to heat, light, oxygen and changes in pH. Pigments extracted from berries, cabbage, and red radishes, for instance, may register as a purply-blue when used in a neutral-pH cookie dough but change to a pastel pink when added to an acidic lemonade.
    — Ali Bouzari, Bon Appetit Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
Definition of acidic
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  • Harry Belafonte was angry at Martin Luther King’s funeral.
    — Made by History, Time, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Related article People are angry at Gen Z taking photos of airport trays.
    — Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 4 Apr. 2025
Definition of angry
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  • Strong winds also may have North Texans feeling more irritable, which scientists blame on there being too many positive ions in the air.
    — Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Signs of overextension burnout include feeling emotionally drained, becoming irritable and struggling to focus—all of which can affect both your work and personal life.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
Definition of irritable
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  • Always down to gossip and party, Redmond exudes Gemini's energy through his zesty and sarcastic attitude.
    — Lisa Stardust, People.com, 31 Mar. 2025
  • This is not just a sarcastic take but a practical one.
    — Jaron Lanier, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2025
Definition of sarcastic
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  • That pleasurable little paradox can be traced as far back as the 1952 classic melodrama The Bad and the Beautiful, or as recently as 2022's bilious Babylon.
    — Tom Gliatto, People.com, 26 Mar. 2025
  • In the Nineties, the report became a staple in the bilious feedstock of right-wing militias, part of a slurry of propaganda that turned legitimate grievances into the conviction that FEMA agents in unmarked black helicopters were soon to enact a new world order.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
Definition of bilious
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  • That’s the premise of Douglas Is Cancelled, a cruelly funny 2024 BBC sitcom that seems very much in sync with satiric comedies such as The Office and W1A and Yes Minister.
    — Air Mail, Air Mail, 22 Mar. 2025
  • Misery, a horror movie with a satiric streak, launched Bates’s film stardom.
    — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 21 Feb. 2025
Definition of satiric
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  • They are usually laid out in vast fields ahead of defensive positions, marked with barbed wire and warning signs Such minefields slow down or halt an enemy assault.
    — David Hambling, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
  • An enemy then grabs the barbed wire with his bare hands — which already sounds like a bad idea, btw — only for the wire to shock him backward.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 20 Mar. 2025
Definition of barbed
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  • And while there is enough splenetic wit and manic detail to generate obsessive fandom (entire sections of Web sites are dedicated to deciphering just what Kenny is mumbling), subjects like alien abduction, genetic engineering, and Kathie Lee are hardly original targets for satire.
    — Chris Norris, SPIN, 13 Aug. 2022
  • Meanwhile, the commentator and controversialist Piers Morgan, an obsessively close observer and relentless critic of Meghan, inevitably waded in with his usual splenetic views.
    — Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2022
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