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What is another word for acrid?

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Sour, bitter, and harsh to the taste

Having an unpleasant or noxious smell

Feeling or expressing bitterness or indignation at having been treated unfairly

Characterized by the use of wit, especially to offend

Causing heat and irritation

Very disgusting or unpleasant, especially to the senses

Having or showing a tendency to be easily annoyed or angered

Resembling a squawk

Of, or relating to an alkali, one of a class of caustic bases

Tasting of, containing, or preserved with salt

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Adjective

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Sour, bitter, and harsh to the taste

unsavory^US

unsavoury^UK

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“It has a crisp, penetrating, but never acrid flavor that is more appreciated as a garnish.”

Adjective

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Having an unpleasant or noxious smell

“Even twenty yards from the room, she could still smell the acrid green smoke.”

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Feeling or expressing bitterness or indignation at having been treated unfairly

with a chip on your shoulder

with chip on shoulder

as cross as two sticks

with all guns blazing

ill-humored^US

antagonized^US

antagonised^UK

beside yourself with rage

scandalized^US

scandalised^UK

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“Washington should seek to reverse the current trend of acrid relations between the two nations.”

Adjective

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Characterized by the use of wit, especially to offend

ill-humored^US

rubbing the wrong way

skeptical^US

sceptical^UK

libellous^UK

libelous^US

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“It seemed that there was no issue on the government's agenda that didn't cause an exchange of acrid barbs between the ministers.”

Adjective

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Causing heat and irritation

oxidizing^US

oxidising^UK

“There are far easier ways to clean your lovely barbecue without the use of acrid cleaning solutions.”

Adjective

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Very disgusting or unpleasant, especially to the senses

unsavoury^UK

unsavory^US

foetid^UK

fetid^US

stinking to high heaven

spoilt^UK

spoiled^US

mouldy^UK

moldy^US

sulphurous^UK

sulfurous^US

ill-favored^US

off-colour^UK

off-color^US

disheveled^US

dishevelled^UK

discolored^US

discoloured^UK

agonizing^US

agonising^UK

faecal^UK

fecal^US

strictly for the birds

unpleasant to breathe

gruelling^UK

as plain as a pikestaff

not quite the done thing

grueling^US

mouldering^UK

moldering^US

unfit for human consumption

gone to rack and ruin

humourless^UK

humorless^US

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Having or showing a tendency to be easily annoyed or angered

ill-humored^US

like a bear with a sore head

cavilling^UK

caviling^US

having got out of bed on the wrong side

as cross as two sticks

having got out of bed the wrong side

humourless^UK

humorless^US

sombre^UK

somber^US

criticizing^US

criticising^UK

apt to fly off the handle

got up on wrong side of bed

like a cat on a hot tin roof

having a fit of the sulks

having a chip on one's shoulder

like a fish out of water

have chip on shoulder

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Adjective

Resembling a squawk

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Adjective

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Of, or relating to an alkali, one of a class of caustic bases

Adjective

Tasting of, containing, or preserved with salt

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