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Significats de acerb en anglès
Being harsh or corrosive in tone.
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Examples for "bitter"
Examples for "bitter"
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Disputes leave bitter problems, however, that no amount of money ever solves.
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This new reality has caused bitter exchanges on social media, straining friendships.
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A bitter controversy in debate with Mr. Blaine assumed a personal character.
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A bitter reconciliation between Poland and West Germany has already taken place.
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I apparently waited too long, however, because they'd already gone horribly bitter.
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We follow four separate acid attack victims who highlight this growing trend.
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By 2003, that particular acid house revolution had come to an end.
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It is used in the laboratory in the preparation of hydrosulphuric acid:
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One example is benzoic acid, now a common preservative in prepared foods.
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Beet: phosphates, fourteen; potash, forty-nine; soda, nineteen; lime, six; sulphuric acid, five.
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His venomous and provocative attack on the State of Israel was unwarranted.
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He did not answer Sam, but gave him a swift venomous look.
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Some of the smallest snakes, in tropical climes, are the most venomous.
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The feelings leapt alive, equally venomous from the wound and the caress.
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All other big snakes in India are pythons, which are not venomous.
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Background: The use of rituximab for refractory autoimmune blistering diseases is increasing.
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South Africa, Australia, and Argentina started the year with blistering heat waves.
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Anecdotes enliven the text, including a blistering critique of Ernst & Young.
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Maybe galloping growth, not blistering growth, said Roth Capital analyst Craig Irwin.
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There is no better example than Chautauqua's blistering win in Hong Kong.
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The only sure fire thing to stop the acrid condition is rain.
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The air was heavy with the acrid fumes of smoke and powder.
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Mrs. Reid was not cheerful; she was rather of an acrid disposition.
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Smoke rolled down into the room, and the acrid fumes grew sharper.
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When fresh the root is very acrid, and will blister the skin.
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Your effort to be caustic is the sweetest thing in the world.
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The lunar caustic was applied in half an hour after the accident.
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We shall therefore in this place describe the manufacture of caustic soda.
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The action of lime is greatest in its caustic or unslacked form.
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The caustic Junius and other writers took this side of the question.
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The wind had abated its violence; coming now in fitful, virulent puffs.
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Recent press reaction to asylum seekers arriving in Britain seems uniquely virulent.
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I don't believe it will become virulent, he was quoted as saying.
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Strikingly, four Isd mutants express substantial resistance to virulent fungal pathogen isolates.
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Russian contagion will definitely not prove as virulent as the Asian phenomenon.
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The very clouds that hide the sun are full of sulphurous heat.
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The sulphurous stream of Albula suggests to him several passages of Martial.
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Much steam issues from the many fissures, accompanied by sulphurous acid gas.
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Of all the players, the criticism of him was the most sulphurous.
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A bucket of sulphurous chemicals might be the least noxious of it.
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For example, it describes my column of a week ago as vitriolic.
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The vitriolic power of the poison is excellently expressed in the story.
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Years later vitriolic supporters still resorted to chants calling him a paedophile.
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Trump's vitriolic anti-Muslim campaign statements are thus totally irrelevant to the analysis.
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But to the Episcopal Church the priest dispensed the most vitriolic criticism.
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Alastair Campbell, the former press secretary to Tony Blair, was typically acerbic.
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Posts on his acerbic blog were picked up by mainstream news outlets.
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Rothschild has said the increasingly acerbic fight is about investment and not personalities.
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Erdoğan's acerbic response on Monday suggested the EU's concerns were justified.
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He's quite withdrawn and shy and a bit acerbic, she said.
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And the volcanoes in the Corlian Valley have high sulfurous gas emissions.
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She stared into the sulfurous light of his eyes for a moment.
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The way was dank and sour, sometimes cut with a sulfurous gust.
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Thorne coughed in the sulfurous air, and walked back into the sunlight.
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Now go. He stamps a hoof and disappears with a sulfurous blast.
Ús de acerb en anglès
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Thereupon followed a soft discussion that was as near being acerb as nails are near velvet paws.
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He had been giving a dinner followed by a concert, and the deafening strains of the music clashed with my acerb spirit, irritating me excessively.