adv. [f. ACRID a. + -LY2.] In an acrid manner; with sharp or irritating bitterness: a. to the taste or bodily senses.
1793. Abernethy, in Phil. Trans., LXXXIII. 61. Not so acridly or nauseously bitter as common bile.
b. to the feelings of others.
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., I. VII. i. 340. Complimentary harangues, of which, as Loustalot acridly calculates, upwards of two thousand have been delivered within the last month.