Pungency, n.
1. Acridness, acrimony, acrimoniousness, tartness, causticity, poignancy, piquancy, sharpness. 2. Keenness, severity, satire, pointedness, smartness. Pungent, a.
1. Smart, stinging, stimulating, pricking, sharp, biting, mordant, burning, caustic, pyrotic, hot, peppery,
piercing, penetrating, piquant, acrid. 2. Acute, keen, trenchant, cutting, acrimonious, severe, peevish, tart, waspish, distressing, poignant,
smart, painful, satirical, pointed. Punic, a.
1. Of the Carthaginians, Carthaginian. 2. Faithless, perfidious, treacherous, deceitful, untrustworthy, false, betraying, traitorous. Punic faith. Treachery, treacherousness, perfidy, traitorousness, perfidiousness.
Puniness, n. Littleness, pettiness, smallness with feebleness.
Punish, v. a.
1. Chastise, castigate, lash, chasten, scourge, whip, flog. 2. Discipline, correct, visit with pain or suffering, take vengeance on, inflict penalties upon, subject to
penalty. Punishment, n.
1. Chastisement, castigation, scourging, correction, discipline. 2. Penalty. Punitive, a. Penal.
Punk, n.
1. Prostitute, strumpet, harlot, whore, trull, drab. 2. Touchwood, spunk, agaric, amadou, German tinder.
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