Definitions
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- adverb In a
acidulous manner; in a mildlysour oracid way.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Stewart considered himself not a close friend of Kennedy, but a quote, "friendly acquaintance" -- and Stewart observed what we might call journalistic niceties more acidulously than Joe did.
Taking on the World: Joseph and Stewart Alsop -- Guardians of the American Century
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"At least, you need not expect me to help you," Helen said acidulously.
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Guardy acidulously counseled his beloved Esmé not to be every species of
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"Any man that's soft-headed enough to have a gander followin 'him round everywhere he goes ought to have a guardeen appointed," suggested Mr. Tate, acidulously, after he had recovered his dog and had cuffed his ears.
The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul
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They are "universally described as both the most wise and the most virtuous part of the community which" ” Mill adds acidulously ” "is not the Aristocratical [class]" (Mill 1992,
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