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pungent

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pungent
1. (of wit, satire, etc.) biting; caustic
2. Biology ending in a sharp point


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The coming of La Petite, bringing with her as she did the pungent atmosphere of an outside and dimly known world, was a shock to these two, living their dream-life.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories by Chopin, Kate View in context
There also came to my nostrils a faintly pungent odor, and I could only assume that I had been overcome by some poisonous gas, but why I should retain my mental faculties and yet be unable to move I could not fathom.
A Princess of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
It was a little different, more pungent, and one felt that this was where it originated.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
 
 
 
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