áspero
sharp ; acidulous ; angular ; acrid ; rough ; abrasive ; rough and rugged ; tart ; unpolished ; coarse ; scratchy .
'I'll give it more thought,' she said with a sharp frown, resuming her former posture.
To the general public 'the female librarian is still angular, elderly, acidulous and terrifying', to use Geoffrey Langley's words, 'and a male librarian is impossible under any hypothesis'.
To the general public 'the female librarian is still angular, elderly, acidulous and terrifying', to use Geoffrey Langley's words, 'and a male librarian is impossible under any hypothesis'.
'Listen!' he growled, in a tone so dry, sarcastic and acrid that not another word was needed to indicate that he was not about to be upstaged by a 24 year old.
In addition they are able to sustain the library services in this rough terrain.
She wanted to say: 'You are a conceited, obstinate, inflexible, manipulative, pompous, close-minded, insensitive, abrasive, opinionated, platitudinous oaf!'.
The western shoreline of Lake Superior has rough and rugged beauty.
Season with salt, pepper, and pinch of sugar if the plums tasted tart.
It seems too rush, too unpolished to be a final product.
The sections of a book were stapled to a coarse cloth backing, but unfortunately the staples soon rusted and became brittle.
Many of us suffer from scratchy throat allergies on account of the seasonal changes.
de superficie áspera
rough-surfaced
The paper was hand-made, rough-surfaced compared with modern book papers, and creamy or yellowish in colour.
de textura áspera
coarse-grained
Coarse-grained textures generally indicate magmas that slowly cooled deep underground.
sabor áspero
off-flavour
Wines infected with either lactic acid bacteria can potentially produce mousy off-flavor.
un poco áspero
roughish
Type was thrust deep into roughish paper which had been softened by damping.