Synonyms:
barbed, biting, nipping, pungent, mordacious
Meaning: capable of wounding; "a barbed compliment"; "a biting aphorism"; "pungent satire"
Synonyms:
pungent, acrid
Meaning: strong and sharp;"the pungent taste of radishes"; "the acrid smell of burning rubber"
Usage examples
She talked little as a rule; but, in the pungent country phrase she never spoke but she said something.
The fire was already burning up, crackling merrily, and sending spurts of blue, pungent smoke into the room.
When Mrs. Shimerda opened the bag and stirred the contents with her hand, it gave out a salty, earthy smell, very pungent, even among the other odors of that cave.
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.