Definition of "acrid" []

• Unpleasantly sharp, pungent, or bitter to the taste or smell. See Synonyms at bitter. (adjective)
• Caustic in language or tone. (adjective)

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• "This bacon tastes intensely smoky, the sort that comes only from long exposure to cool wood smoke, and not of meat soaked in acrid liquid smoke flavoring."
• "I hasten to spit it out, but all day my lips are still hot and acrid from the brief experiment."
• "It was more a thing of his head than his heart, revealing itself mainly in short, acrid speeches, meant to be clever, and indubitably disagreeable."