subacid

Numberless are the jokes made about the Legion of Honour, yet none contain such subacid irony as this one.

Sapodilla, sap-ō-dil′a, n. a name given in the West Indies to the fruit of several species of Achras, the seeds aperient and diuretic, the pulp subacid and sweet.

“Good evening,” repeated Christina in a low, subacid voice, looking away into her bowl of sliced onions.

A variety of cherry known as the Kentish cherry, of a light red colour and fine subacid flavour, is much grown in Kent for drying and cooking purposes.

He chuckles with sly laughter—genial, sympathetic; he looses his arrow phosphorescent with wit, but not barbed, dipped in something subacid,—straight for the heart.