Crossword-Solution: PUNGENCY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pungency | n. | The quality or state of being pungent or piercing; keenness; sharpness; piquancy; as, the pungency of ammonia. |
We have 9 clues for the answer “PUNGENCY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Limburger cheese quality | 2 answers |
| raciness | 2 answers |
| SHARP smell | 3 answers |
| A STRONG ODOR OR TASTE PROPERTY | 11 answers |
| Aroma | 36 answers |
| Bitterness | 44 answers |
| Malice | 57 answers |
| Envy | 63 answers |
| Hardship | 74 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PUNGENCY (5)
Every leaf and bud and blade seemed to contribute its exhalation to the pervading sweetness in which the pungency of pine-sap prevailed over the spice of thyme and the subtle perfume of fern, and all were merged in a moist earth-smell that was like the breath of some huge sun-warmed animal.
From a boarding-school, a black-board, a piano, and Clementi’s _Sonatinas_, the child had made a rash adventure upon life in the company of a half-bred hawbuck; and she was already not only regretting it, but expressing her regret with point and pungency.
The copious Corinthian baseness of the American reporter or the Parisian _chroniquear_, both so lightly readable, must exercise an incalculable influence for ill; they touch upon all subjects, and on all with the same ungenerous hand; they begin the consideration of all, in young and unprepared minds, in an unworthy spirit; on all, they supply some pungency for dull people to quote.
JONATHAN Oh! my dear friend, though you have a profound knowledge of all, a pungency of tribulation, you don't know everything.
And besides, would not my presence in his house draw out the whole pungency of the memorial? For that complaint could not be very seriously regarded, if the person chiefly injured was the guest of the official most incriminated.
Quotes with PUNGENCY (3)
ROSEMARY Beauty and Beauty’s son and rosemary — Venus and Love, her son, to speak plainly — born of the sea supposedly, at Christmas each, in company, braids a garland of festivity. Not always rosemary — since the flight to Egypt, blooming differently. With lancelike leaf, green but silver underneath, its flowers — white originally — turned blue. The herb of memory, imitating the blue robe of Mary, is not too legendary to flower both as symbol and as pungency. Springing from …
What a face this girl possessed! — could I not gaze at it every day I would need to recreate it through painting, sculpture, or fatherhood until a second such face is born. Her face, at once innocent and feral, soft and wild! Her mouth voluptuous. Eyes deep as oceans, her eyes as wide as planets. I likened her to the slender Psyché and judged that the perfection of her face ennobled everything unclean around her: the dusty hems of her bunched-up skirt, the worn straps of her …
The purr is very important. It's the purr that does it every time. It's the purr that makes up for the Things Under the Bed, the occasional pungency, the 4 a.m. yowl. Other creatures went in for big teeth, long legs or over-active brains, while cats just settled for a noise that tells the world they're feeling happy.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2012).