1 (of a smell or taste) very strong, sometimes in an unpleasant way:
pungent odors
The air is full of the pungent odor of chicken houses and pig farms.
You could wear thin, disposable gloves when you handle garlic, onion, fish, or other pungent foods.
Perhaps the most pungent and affecting comment came from a young African American woman: "I don't get why we're fighting for somebody else's freedom when we barely have our own."
Pungent and sour with a bit annoying.
Sewage refuse and other matter create some unsightly conditions and pungent odours and anxiety has also been expressed about bathing from polluted beaches.
The comments of practical men in commerce have been no less pungent.
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