| 单词 | pungent |
| 释义 | pun·gent I. 1. < a pungent ray on a fish > < pungent leaves of holly > 2. < our sympathy becomes so pungent — Leslie Stephen > 3. a. < a pungent editorial > < pungent humor > < a pungent truth > b. < fewer pages and shorter paragraphs help make it more pungent — H.T.Moore > < compiled a collection which should serve as a pungent antidote to much of the fuzzy thinking — R.B.Morris > < has drawn, with pungent finesse, the interior of a slum bistro — Books of the Month > < a place of pungent contrasts — of dull monotony and indiscreet adventure — E.M.Lustgarten > 4. < the autumn's pungent smell of burning leaves > < tasting the pungent acidulous wood sorrel — John Burroughs > < some half-forgotten but still pungent memories — Virginia Woolf > < singers with coarse, pungent voices — H.F.Mooney > Synonyms: < the pungent odor of untanned leather > < the pungent reek of a strong cigar — A. Conan Doyle > < his pungent pen played its part in rousing the nation to its later struggle with the Crown — J.R.Green > < the mob needs concrete goals and the pungent thrill of hate in order to give vent to its destructive impulses — M.R.Cohen > piquant may indicate an interesting or appetizing tartness, sharpness, or pungency that stimulates or a zestful, arch, provocative, challenging, or exciting quality that is individual or peculiar < a piquant sauce > < piquant with the tart-sweet taste of green apples and sugar — Silas Spitzer > < piquant touch of innocent malice in his narration — G.G.Coulton > < those piquant incongruities, which are the chief material of wit — C.E.Montague > poignant may describe what is sharply or piercingly effective upon the senses or stirring to one's inmost consciousness or deepest emotions < the air of romantic poverty which Rosalie found so tragically poignant — Elinor Wylie > < with poignant finality, as a lover might put away a rose from a lost romance — Agnes S. Turnbull > < a vague but poignant sense of discouragement that the sacrifices of the war had not been justified by its results spread over the country — Oscar Handlin > racy may suggest verve, dash, tang, or vitality manifested with lively free heartiness < everybody who loves the language enough to want to keep it always young and racy ought to turn out too and keep the pedants from running amok — C.E.Montague > < a rare and racy sense of humor — W.S.Maugham > spicy describes what is seasoned or made redolent of spice; in extended uses it may suggest the piquant, smart, spirited, sensational, or scandalous < flair for a spicy zestful vernacular in dialogue — Leslie Rees > < spicy tales of the type which usually appear in paperbound copies, in which bishops are forced to visit nudist camps in their underwear — Robertson Davies > snappy suggests briskness, animation, dash, wit, or risqué quality < spoken in a snappy, matter-of-fact way — Vachel Lindsay > < the renditions, if not especially lovely, were at all times spirited, neat, and snappy — Virgil Thomson > II. < surprise is like a thrilling pungent upon a tasteless meat — Emily Dickinson > |
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