ac·rid

(ăk′rĭd)

adj.

1. Unpleasantly sharp, pungent, or bitter to the taste or smell. See Synonyms at bitter.

2. Caustic in language or tone: an acrid political campaign.

[From Latin ācer, sharp (probably modeled on acid); see ak- in Indo-European roots.]

a·crid′i·ty (ə-krĭd′ĭ-tē), ac′rid·ness n.

ac′rid·ly adv.

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Translations

erosivo

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Serving up a particularly bleak vision of domestic hell (call it "The Five-Year Itch"), the film excavates more layers of deception, desperation, resentment and homicidal rage than you'd think could exist between two people who were once in love, all in service of an acridly funny punchline: "That's marriage."

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Loerke faintly protests: "'That also,' he said in his thin, bitter voice: 'that's the sport.' He was acridly sarcastic" (FWL 1998, 436).

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