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UK
/pˈʌndʒəntli/
]
[ US /ˈpəndʒəntɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈpəndʒəntɫi/ ]
ADVERB
-
with a pungent taste or smell
the soup was pungently flavored -
with pungency; in a pungent manner
he wrote pungently about his contemporaries
How To Use pungently In A Sentence
- the soup was pungently flavored
- From this pungently unpromising substance we have made a variety of savoury stews and fritters, and saltfish is one of the Caribbean's unexpectedly characteristic flavours.
- There is a whiff of conspiracy in the air and it reeks pungently of Chardonnay glugging down the plug hole and just a dash of carpet-trampled kettle chips.
- he wrote pungently about his contemporaries
- There is a whiff of conspiracy in the air and it reeks pungently of Chardonnay glugging down the plug hole and just a dash of carpet-trampled kettle chips.
- Some of it was pungently stimulating; some, for this farang, verged on the inedible — like eating incendiary, pongy swamp. Times, Sunday Times
- Meanwhile one boxer's mother – pungently scripted – pretends to be defrosting the fridge so that she can hide her own melting into tears. Hamlet; Passion; Beautiful Burnout; Wanderlust
- Hepungently assesses the disgusting abdication of moral responsibility being displayed by Europe over the race to acquire nuclear weapons.
- He wrote pungently against Gnosticism and other heresies, and in the course of his polemic unfolded a story of salvation of breathtaking coherence and scope.
- In Florence, too, the hell-on-earth created by priestcraft is coarsely and pungently denounced: young Vespucci capers happily around the pyre on the day that Savonarola is burned and the reign of clerical puritan terror brought to a close. Cassocks and Codpieces