acidly

adv

Etymology

From acid + -ly.

  1. derived from acidus
  2. borrowed from acide
  3. formed as acidly — “acid + -ly

Definitions

  1. sourly

    sourly; tartly

    • Perchance, when you are speculating why he is so acidly disposed some morning, he is but meditating upon that other half-hour which he wanted in bed, to bring his wits and his good-temper about him.
    • In a brief two decades, the young British dramatists who railed angrily at the Establishment have been succeeded by caustic young playwrights who acidly mock the welfare state.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for acidly. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA