Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an astringent manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In an astringent manner.
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- adverb In the manner of an
astringent .
Etymologies
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Examples
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When I look out of the window I see an astringently cold, bleak January day.
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He's not overtly or astringently political, as so many talk hosts today are.
Bill Mann: A Dobbs Campaign? Battle-Scarred Radio Pro Dave Ross Reveals What Lou Can Expect 2009
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Sutherland chaired the 2005 Man Booker Prize committee and in his new book comments astringently on literary awards, including the Nobel Prize www.nobelprize.org.
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Sutherland chaired the 2005 Man Booker Prize committee and in his new book comments astringently on literary awards, including the Nobel Prize www.nobelprize.org.
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Ah, at last, a decently priced New Zealand sauvignon blanc that's not astringently dry and has some body to it, and not made "interesting" by the addition of a lot of grassy flavors.
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Their flesh fries as astringently as that of any Vssey.
Sliding Scales Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2004
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My own Mercedes, milk-coffee-coloured, stood beyond: and what, I thought astringently, was it saying about me!
Come To Grief Francis, Dick 1995
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My own Mercedes, milk-coffee-coloured, stood beyond: and what, I thought astringently, was it saying about me!
Come To Grief Francis, Dick 1995
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For God's sake, I told myself astringently, take a grip on things.
Decider Francis, Dick 1993
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I answered my own question astringently: I'd written a novel, what did it matter if it won or lost on its own terms?
Longshot Francis, Dick 1990
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