Crossword-Solution: PUNGENT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pungent | v. t. | Causing a sharp sensation, as of the taste, smell, or feelings; pricking; biting; acrid; as, a pungent spice. |
| Pungent | v. t. | Sharply painful; penetrating; poignant; severe; caustic; stinging. |
| Pungent | v. t. | Prickly-pointed; hard and sharp. |
We have 42 clues for the answer “PUNGENT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Strong, biting. | 1 answer |
| Like strong onions | 1 answer |
| Like radishes | 1 answer |
| Like mustard | 1 answer |
| Kick around information that's hot | 1 answer |
| Piquant; sharp | 1 answer |
| With a sharp strong taste | 1 answer |
| the acrid smell of burning rubber | 1 answer |
| sharp caustic | 1 answer |
| having a strong sharp bitter flavour | 2 answers |
| Sharp-smelling | 2 answers |
| Stinging to the taste | 2 answers |
| Strong and sharp | 2 answers |
| SHARP smell | 3 answers |
| flavor strong | 3 answers |
| Strong-smelling | 3 answers |
| Nose-wrinkling | 3 answers |
| strong flavor | 4 answers |
| CURRIED | 5 answers |
| CALESCENT | 7 answers |
| overproof | 9 answers |
| diathermic | 10 answers |
| molten | 14 answers |
| Aromatic | 15 answers |
| Acidulous | 18 answers |
| Gamy | 18 answers |
| Tangy | 18 answers |
| Stinging | 18 answers |
| Mordant | 26 answers |
| Acrid | 27 answers |
| Odorous | 29 answers |
| overheated | 35 answers |
| Biting | 46 answers |
| Hectic | 46 answers |
| Juicy | 49 answers |
| Racy | 51 answers |
| Peppery | 56 answers |
| Piquant | 57 answers |
| desiring | 62 answers |
| Forceful | 66 answers |
| Sarcastic | 69 answers |
| High | 116 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PUNGENT (5)
The phial, to which I next turned my attention, might have been about half-full of a blood-red liquor, which was highly pungent to the sense of smell and seemed to me to contain phosphorus and some volatile ether.
Both men fell in their tracks, and scarcely had the pungent odor of the powder smoke reached Bulan’s nostrils ere the white man had plunged into the jungle and disappeared.
They had not begun to lath and plaster yet, but the clean, fresh smell of the mortar in the walls mingling with the pungent fragrance of the pine shavings neutralised the Venetian odour that drew in over the water.
The coming of La Petite, bringing with her as she did the pungent atmosphere of an outside and dimly known world, was a shock to these two, living their dream-life.
The leaves of the huge cherry trees threw off a certain pungent aroma that entered through the open window, together with long thin shafts of golden sunlight.
Quotes with PUNGENT (3)
It was exciting to be off on a journey she had looked forward to for months. Oddly, the billowing diesel fumes of the airport did not smell like suffocating effluence, it assumed a peculiar pungent scent that morning, like the beginning of a new adventure, if an adventure could exude a fragrance.
By nature independent, gay, even exuberant, seductively responsive and given to those spontaneous sallies that sparkle in the conversation of certain daughters of Paris who seem to have inhaled since childhood the pungent breath of the boulevards laden with the nightly laughter of audiences leaving theaters, Madame de Burne's five years of bondage had nonetheless endowed her with a singular timidity which mingled oddly with her youthful mettle, a great fear of saying too much…
Your childhood," said Yackle coaxingly, as if she could smell his thoughts. As if she could sniff out those passages he hadn't chosen to retail at drink parties. Her words lulled him. The past, even a bitter past, is usually more pungent than the present, or at least better organized in the mind.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, WSJ.
Used 15 times in crossword archives (1944–2019).