Sentence example with the word 'pungency'

pungency

acerbity, acridness, brilliance, facetiousness, headiness, joking, nimble-wittedness, poignancy, smartness, sparkle, unripeness, vinegarishness

Definition n. wit having a sharp and caustic quality

Last update: July 26, 2015


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Many species produce gums and resins, their stems being encrusted with the exudations, and pungency and aromatic odour is an almost universal quality of the plants of desert regions.   [Please select]

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At the same instant came an elusive whiff of pungency on the chill.   [Please select]

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--The pungency of the odor of vinegar naturally brought it into the earliest use in the art of perfumery.   [Please select]

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His dialogues have been imitated by Fontanelle and Lord Lyttleton, but these authors do not possess his humor or pungency.   [Please select]

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And besides, would not my presence in his house draw out the whole pungency of the memorial.   [Please select]

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I do not know to this day which more interested him--that very pungency of phrase, or the critical events which inspired his reflections.   [Please select]

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To Colonel Delaney he was an "agitator," if not a rebel; and the careless pungency of his talk soon classed him as an atheist besides.   [Please select]

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