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acerb

[uh-surb] / əˈsɜrb /


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Bringing back David Brinkley, as wry of manner as ever but now less acerb, has improved the show but not its share of the audience.

From Time Magazine Archive

Out of one recent seminar, for example, came General Lyman Lemnitzer's acerb remarks on General Maxwell Taylor's proposal to merge the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

From Time Magazine Archive

Along with another acerb little volume, Gore Vidal's The American Presidency, it can be taken as an ideal chaser to the recent binge of Monicaholism.

From Time Magazine Archive

Groucho's ambition is to keep You Bet Your Life neatly balanced between human interest and acerb comment.

From Time Magazine Archive

I wish to-day to make known another of these voices, more acerb, more virile, more vengeful, than the stoical bitterness of Husson and the despairing tenderness of Delemer.

From The Forerunners by Rolland, Romain




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