Synonym: acid, biting, bitter, sharp, spicy, stinging, tangy. Similar words: tangential, plunge, engender, in general, ingenuous, ingenuity, punishment, agent. Meaning: ['pʌdʒənt] adj. 1. strong and sharp;"the pungent taste of radishes" 2. capable of wounding.
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(31) The rider delivered some loud, bitter and pungent comments, and people shook their heads at the girl.
(32) I could smell its peppery, pungent scent from where I stood.
(33) A fox earth can be located from a considerable distance downwind by the pungent smell given off.
(34) For 35 years, Richard Gourlain has puffed away on pungent unfiltered Gauloises.
(35) Black seeds are the most pungent, the most rare, and the most difficult to harvest.
(36) A rich aroma of manure and wood smoke, pungent to my effete nostrils.
(37) And I smelled the pungent stickiness of the glue when I pasted the labels on the matchboxes, table, and chairs.
(38) Treatment involves the application of insecticide by pressure spray in the form of pungent solvents or water-based emulsions or pastes.
(39) The dry bracken crackled beneath his feet and gave off a pungent aroma.
(40) It is usually forward with a pungent blackcurrant aroma on the bouquet and it is ripe, fruity and friendly.
(41) The pungent smell gives the impression of a powerful cleaning agent.
(42) Woodsmoke and the pungent aroma of apples and Michaelmas daisies spiced the dusk.
(43) The entryway was a garbage dump for rotted food,[Sentencedict.com] and the stairways reeked of old and pungent uric acid.
(44) The thick pungent smoke from the spliff filled the car in no time as Firebug took long leisurely tokes and sat back.
(45) Now my world is permeated by the pungent odor of diesel fuel.
(46) It has a strong aroma and pungent, but slightly sweet taste and is suitable for freezing and drying.
(47) The room smelt stale and musty with the pungent odour of the fat tallow candles placed on the desk.
(48) Candles flickered, incense burned in an unsuccessful attempt to cover the pungent smell of marijuana.
(49) Both were smoking and the pungent smell of Gauloise tobacco so early in the morning made me feel sick.
(50) It was a creepy spot with a strong pungent smell of garlic and there was always a feeling of tension and foreboding.
(51) Saturated hydrocarbons can burn to aldehydes, alcohols to organic acids, and aromatics to unsaturated compounds which are pungent and irritating.
(52) Pungent diesel fumes poured from the back of the truck.
(53) The entire region is an olfactory overload of pungent fruit.
(54) They tend to have a distinctive, pungent flavour and are quite different from other cheeses.
(55) The squid is tender and dressed in a pungent fishy sauce with a hint of nuttiness.
(56) The latter led him to publish a pungent tract on patent medicines.
(57) From where he stood the pungent smell of frying onion was easily detectable.
(58) As they set off across their territory in the darkness to look for prey, they leave pungent signposts.
(59) The leaves when crushed give out a pungent or acid smell.
(60) By then a stream of colourless but pungent lemon-scented oil was dripping from his hands on to the floor and the cotton-wool.
More similar words: tangential, plunge, engender, in general, ingenuous, ingenuity, punishment, agent, urgent, gently, diligent, indulgent, gentleness, diligently, arrangement, punch, punish, lung, young, punitive, impunity, entailment, entertainment, sentiment, hung up, jungle, compunction, punctilious, fungible, a young man.