Acidly

Word ACIDLY
Character 6
Hyphenation ac id ly
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Acidly"

What do we mean by acidly?

Sourly; tartly

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The word "acidly" in example sentences

She acidly comments: "I only wish I had read that 29 years ago, then I would never have married him." ❋ Michael Dirda (2010)

Gingrich raps Romney over the knuckles again over the nasty Super Pac ads, saying acidly:Mitt can't influence his Super Pac, makes you wonder how much influence he will have if he is president.10.37pm: Guns and Mitt Romney! ❋ Unknown (2012)

On Hannity's popular afternoon drive-time show, the Tea Party-inspired Senate contender acidly criticized the party, specifically the National Republican Senatorial Committee, for not funneling any serious cash (beyond a pro forma $43,000) into her race against Democrat Chris Coons. ❋ Howard Fineman (2010)

She acidly refers to her younger sisters as "common dogs" and, after seeing Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera "Le prophète," petulantly announces: "I have no time for Jewish music!" ❋ Maxwell Carter (2011)

Secretary Dulles acidly commented that “it is a mockery for them to come in with bombs falling over Egypt” and rail against the Soviet Union “for perhaps doing something that is not quite as bad.” ❋ David A. Nichols (2011)

And she remembers saying acidly to her husband as they gazed at her newborn younger son, "Here you are, my darling, I've made another soldier for the IDF." ❋ Donna Rifkind (2010)

“There are children who are working in textile businesses in Asia who would be prostitutes on the streets if they did not have these jobs,” he remarked acidly.2 The professional politicians were careful to be more respectful. ❋ Gideon Rachman (2011)

Eisenhower acidly retorted that “such a thought was almost absurd.” ❋ David A. Nichols (2011)

In a recent article on the doomed future of French studies, Forsdick acidly remarked that in the past French departments had usually been staffed by French nationals and that their "persistent Francophilia often tended to obstruct the distance of ethnographic objectivity on which modern languages should ideally be based". ❋ Unknown (2011)

The U.S. talks about new training programs for a few digital activists in the Middle East, Morozov acidly observes, but it could do more for freedom if it stopped training and giving aid to a few dictators in the same neighborhood. ❋ Ari Melber (2011)

The committee report is acidly polite in pointing out that there is a 'discrepancy between the relatively small amounts of money needed to avoid the most damaging cuts to the World Service and the scale of the Department for International Development spending review settlement'. ❋ Unknown (2011)

A critic acidly likened Butterfield's reputation to "an inverted cone, his wide-ranging prestige balanced on a tiny platform of achievement." ❋ William Anthony Hay (2011)

As the report acidly observes, the flotilla's largest ship and the site of the fighting—the Mavi Marmara—barely contained any humanitarian goods beyond "foodstuffs and toys carried in passengers' personal baggage." ❋ Unknown (2011)

Told that Germany's second-choice keeper was watching an international friendly match from high up in the stands, Schumacher remarked acidly, "He should remember that even when sitting on the loftiest Himalayan peak, a dwarf is still a dwarf." ❋ Unknown (2011)

As Mulgrew and Mason acidly suggest, why doesn't Elliott try to walk in the shoes of Dziekanski's mother, Zofia Cisowski, instead? ❋ Unknown (2009)

At a recent gathering to discuss the crisis that threatens to unravel the euro, one former member of the European parliament observed acidly: They ought to give this year's Charlemagne prize for services to European unity to the bond markets. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Hatherley acidly contrasts it with the rundown but culturally vibrant Manchester of the late 70s: Regenerated cities produce no more great pop music, great films or great art than they do industrial product. ❋ Andy Beckett (2010)

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