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astringent adjective acid, acrid, acrimonious, austere, bitter, caustic, dour, exigent, harsh, mordant, rough, severe, stern, strict, stringent, tart See also: bitter, caustic, harsh, particular, severe How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Thucydides, in his astringently dispassionate history, recounts how Nicias, the Athenian general, sought to turn his countrymen away from the foolhardiness of invading Sicily. Prouve is best known for his astringently functional, mostly metal furniture, but he was so enamored of pressed steel and aluminum that he wanted to use them for all aspects of modern living. As historian Paul Leland Haworth astringently wrote in his 1912 study Reconstruction and Union, Stevens "possessed much of the sternness of the old Puritans, without their morality. |
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