acerbity
Example Sentences
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As her New York Times obituary put it, “She specialized in sourness, or, more politely, acerbity, which she used to her comic advantage in roles as housekeepers, spinsters, wicked stepmothers, nuns and back-talking secretaries.”
From Slate • Aug. 16, 2019
It brings together judgment and gentleness, reason and passion, acerbity and receptivity.
From The Guardian • Sep. 21, 2018
Its emotional harshness and quasi-confessional acerbity is radically untimely—and therefore enduring.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 25, 2017
Evelyn has the sharpest tongue, and Ms. Parsons, with her tart acerbity, makes the most of it.
From New York Times • Jun. 19, 2016
Presently, as Miss Upton moved away on Courtlandt's arm in the direction of her aunt and Sallie, she burst into a laugh, of whose loudness and acerbity she was equally unconscious.
From The Adventures of a Widow A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar
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