vinegarish

1 Aiken being right would mean Eliot showing a "thin and vinegarish hostility towards the modern world" and sounding a note of "withered dogmatism".

2 But I am morally certain she has all sorts of vinegarish names for me.

3 We dote upon vinegarish old maids, self- righteous men, and canting women when they are exposed by narrative art, and especially when poetic justice wrecks them.

1 乖戾

contrary surly gnarly gnarled crabby vinegary sour warp bile

2 刻薄

mean quick sharp cutting brisk sarcastic caustic scathing shrewish sarky sharp-fanged mordacious mordacity vinegar sting acrimony mordancy

3 微酸的

acidulent acidulous acidy

4 尖酸刻薄

acidulent acid nipping mordacious stinging acerbity

5 尖酸刻薄的

acidulent acid nipping mordacious stinging

6 尖酸

acrid mordant sour vinegar

7 尖酸的

acrid mordant sour

8 乖僻

erratic warp disagreeableness

9 乖戾的

contrary surly gnarly gnarled crabby vinegary sour

10 刻薄的

mean quick sharp cutting brisk sarcastic caustic scathing shrewish sarky sharp-fanged mordacious

11 乖僻的

erratic